The stock market fell on Monday. A lot. … President Trump has spent lots of time bragging about the stock market over the past year, from dozens and dozens of references in his Twitter feed to a riff about it in last week’s State of the Union address. Moreover, the […] Read more »
Presidency Affects Americans’ Lives in Many Ways
About half of Americans (52%) say “the person who is serving as president” (regardless of whom that happens to be) affects their overall happiness a fair amount (30%) or a great deal (22%). Americans also say the presidency has a major effect on their fundamental attitudes about the nation as […] Read more »
2017 Partisan Gap in Economic Confidence One of the Largest
Republicans’ and Democrats’ views of the U.S. economy, as measured in the Gallup Economic Confidence Index (ECI), diverged more in 2017 than they have in several years. Last year’s average 68-point gap between Republicans’ and Democrats’ ECI scores roughly matches the gap seen in 2012, and before that in 2005 […] Read more »
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Improved
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® increased in January, following a decline in December. The Index now stands at 125.4 (1985=100), up from 123.1 in December. CONT. Conference Board Read more »
Consumer Confidence Is Lifting the Economy. But for How Much Longer?
Amid the constant turmoil in domestic and global politics these days, the economy’s steady expansion has been a source of comfort. But look more closely and you will find that economic growth rests on a surprisingly amorphous base: consumer confidence. In the United States, consumer confidence has been ascending since […] Read more »
Americans Cheer Their Economy. Their President, Not So Much
President Donald Trump is breaking the convention that when Americans feel good about the economy they credit their leader. Never in recent history have consumers been so buoyant about economic prospects and their financial fortunes while at the same time so down on the president. The gap has emerged in […] Read more »