“We feel the difference now. See, now, we are feeling what not having hope feels like,” she told Oprah Winfrey in an interview, a clip of which aired on CBS on Friday. “Hope is necessary. It’s a necessary concept and Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.”
CHASER: Gosh, there’s a lot of hopelessness going on there….oh wait!
The effects of a profound change in national direction are already being felt in the American economy:
Consumer confidence climbed in December to the highest level since August 2001 as Americans were more upbeat about the outlook than at any time in the last 13 years, according to a report Tuesday from the New York-based Conference Board.
- Confidence index increased to 113.7 (forecast was 109) from a revised 109.4 in November
- Measure of consumer expectations for the next six months rose to 105.5, the highest since December 2003, from 94.4
American households are expecting a Donald Trump administration to deliver. They are more upbeat about the prospects for the economy, labor market and their incomes, according to the Conference Board’s report. The results corroborate surveys by the University of Michigan and the National Federation of Independent Business, which showed jumps in household and business sentiment on Trump’s pledges to boost jobs, cut taxes and ease regulations.
The marketplace’s animal spirits, so long kept in the socialist/Statist’s cage, are seeing the locks ready to drop. No more of the equivalent of Bernie Sanders railing against the Free Market (re: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers…”). And now it is starting to show.
(H/T: Instapundit)
