The stock market rally pushing the S&P 500 to all-time highs lifted the personal financial outlook among investors to a new record, the July IBD/TIPP Poll finds. Yet rising financial stress, as stimulus fades and inflation percolates, is weighing on U.S. economic optimism. The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, an early […] Read more »
President Biden’s Job Approval Slides, Honeymoon Appears Over: IBD/TIPP
President Joe Biden’s honeymoon with voters appears to be over amid diminished support for his economic stewardship, the July IBD/TIPP Poll finds. Biden’s job approval fell as his bipartisan infrastructure deal hit a pothole and Americans’ financial stress rose to a six-month high amid fading stimulus and a burst of […] Read more »
Post-Covid economy: Cities, mass-transit, car prices all changed by pandemic
As vaccination rates rise and the country emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, there are a lot of questions about what “normal” is going to look like. Social distancing and masking will wane and “days at the office” will become more common again, but sliding back into old routines and patterns […] Read more »
Hope For Normalcy Is Growing. Here’s What Americans Are Still Worried About
Normal is not easily defined. The past 15 months, though, have certainly been anything but. Americans are starting to believe a “sense of normal” is approaching fairly soon, however, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey. The poll also found that with the coronavirus receding in this country, mask-wearing is […] Read more »
Half of U.S. fears another COVID wave even as optimism grows
Even as more Americans seem optimistic that life is returning to normal, half of U.S. adults are worried that another surge of COVID-19 infections could threaten the country, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. With states dropping pandemic restrictions and the most transmissible coronavirus variant so far on the […] Read more »
Democrats Face an Economic Trust Gap in 2022
Third Way’s latest national survey with ALG Research finds that Democrats suffer from an economic trust gap that may impact the party at the ballot box if action is not taken ahead of the 2022 midterm election. This trust gap is the belief among voters that Republicans instead of Democrats […] Read more »