We hear a lot about consumer confidence. It's up. It's down. It holds steady. I don't know about you, but my confidence can change depending on how much it cost for me to fill up my gas tank or my basket at Costco (horrors!).
Apparently there are people who measure how confident we are as a nation for a living. And this Conference Board samples 5,000 households all over the United States each month on how confident they feel. If 5,000 representative families feel more confident about a variety of issues, chances are, many of us feel the same way.
Well, then. You are feeling more confident than you did in March! You might not have realized that, so I thought I would let you know! And, you felt more confident in March than you did in February! Feeling better yet?
According to the survey, we are less concerned about current business and labor market conditions! More of us believe that present-day conditions are "good," and less of us think now that they are "bad." More of us are perceiving that "jobs are plentiful," and less of us are saying jobs are "hard to get."
You and I have a better outlook than we did in March, and more of us are expecting business conditions to improve over the next six months.
What I love about being an American, and being an East Countian specifically, is our resiliance. Most of us know others who are out of work or fearful of losing their job. Pay raises have not been plentiful for most of us. Yet we Americans refuse to lose our optimish, continue to work hard and look ahead to better days, at the same time enjoying the day we have been given.
Worry can't add a single inch to your height or a single dollar to your wallet! Confidence is contagious - and it is good for us, and it is good for our economy. Now that you know you are more confident than you were last month, go get 'em! And make sure you are registered to vote and use that American individualism to make a difference. It's contagious.
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