Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index improved to an average of -21 thus far in January, up from -28 in December, and the most positive score since Gallup Daily tracking began in January 2008. More upper-income consumers (50%) say the economy is getting better than say it is getting worse (45%), for the first time in 16 months.
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– Posted by John Hope Bryant
John Hope Bryant is the founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Bryant Group Companies, Inc., author of bestselling business book LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass), and member of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability