This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.

US Economic 'Hope' Plunges To 10-Month Lows

Tyler Durden's picture




 

57% of Americans see the US economy "getting worse," according to Gallup's latest survey, sending 'hope' to its lowest since September. Overall economic confidence slipped once again, despite the Greek deal, now at its lowest since October. It appears rising gas prices trump the rising stock prices when it comes to the average joe in America.

 

Americans More Negative About Economic Outlook Than Current Conditions

Gallup's Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: how Americans rate the current economy and whether they feel the economy is getting better or getting worse. As has been the case since March, Americans rated the outlook for the economy worse than they rated current economic conditions for the week ending July 19.

The current conditions score was essentially unchanged from the week prior at -5. This was the result of 25% of Americans saying the economy is "excellent" or "good" and 30% saying it is "poor." Meanwhile, 39% of Americans said the economy is "getting better," while 57% said it is "getting worse."

This resulted in an economic outlook score of -18, slightly below the -16 from the week prior, and the lowest weekly average since the week ending Sept. 21, 2014.

Source: Gallup

 

- advertisements -

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:02 | 6339911 falconflight
falconflight's picture

Maybe Wesley Clark, General (Retired), Serbe genocider, former short lived candidate for DemParty nomination, was actually speaking to the 57% referenced in this article for their "defeatist" unAmerikan sentiments and their need for possible internment.  Who knows anymore?

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:05 | 6339923 CaptainAmerika
CaptainAmerika's picture

a nice propaganda film about the hope disappearing: http://www.philiacband.com/propaganda.html

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:06 | 6340140 TahoeBilly2012
TahoeBilly2012's picture

Here is your hope...keep the change.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:02 | 6340121 neilhorn
neilhorn's picture

Wasn't he arrested and convicted for doing the same things that H. Clinton and J. Aussange did? Mrs. clinton's emails were no more secure than Gen. Clark's. Her emails went to someone that had no clearance, Sidney Blumenthal. Of course we all know what Assange has done to American national security.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 00:03 | 6340269 falconflight
falconflight's picture

I don't recall that, but wouldn't be surprised.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 02:23 | 6340454 neilhorn
neilhorn's picture

The general told his secrets to his mistress. The Secretary of State told hers to her mad dog, Blumenthal. Mr. Assange told their secrets to the rest of us.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:03 | 6339913 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
MASTER OF UNIVERSE's picture

The USA economy will never be restored to pre-2008 growth. The USA is heading for complete devastation economically and will never recover on any level whatsoever. America died in 2008, but the Oligarchs propped it up so they could ring-fence whatever bad investments they needed to get rid of before the planned implosion manifested. Each business quarter they extend and pretend that the carrot on a stick is getting closer, but we all know that that is not true. Bottom line is that there will never be a recovery in your lifetime.

 

NOTE: I have inside knowledge on the 2008 crash that I cannot disclose, but I assure all on Z/H that there will _NEVER_ be a recovery.

 

NOTE 2: Sell everything before it is all worthless.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:04 | 6339920 nuubee
nuubee's picture

America died in 1913. It was the day we handed our money system over to central planners.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:42 | 6340051 Charles Offdensen
Charles Offdensen's picture

Who's this WE shit you speak of? You got a mouse in your pocket or that your dick?

Check your head gear new guy. Or Nuubee as it were.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:12 | 6339949 Seasmoke
Seasmoke's picture

NOTE 2: Sell everything before it is all worthless.

 

And then do what with the fiat DOLLARS from selling everything ?????

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:39 | 6340038 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
MASTER OF UNIVERSE's picture

Convert the dollars into greater probability of survival. For example, all the American Z/Hers should get the hell out of Dodge before they get nuked, incarcerated in a FEMA resocialization camp, or biologically poisoned with bioweapons. Sell the house and leave the USA before China & the Russian Federation collectively nuke your next BIG Mac, or Chicken McNuggets, beyond being edible, if you catch my drift.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:27 | 6340174 TahoeBilly2012
TahoeBilly2012's picture

The Master of The Universe doesn't offer an array of potentially devastating scenarios, he knows exactly what will happen. I think you ate some acid, thought you got some inside knowledge and have since proclaimed yourself as MOTU. 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:46 | 6340244 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
MASTER OF UNIVERSE's picture

Pot, beer, hash, wine, and whiskey sometimes, but never psychedelics or Cocaine. I'm anti-drugs except for pot n' hash. Furthermore, as for delusional thinking I assure you that my inside knowledge is not drug fueled, or inaccurate on an empirical level. You can theorize at will, but I am not the type to exaggerate, or embellish. I know exactly how the 2008 crash manifested in terms of expectation, and probability. The USA is going to de-accelerate on growth to a point of implosion on all the dark pool derivatives which is the real concern of the monied classes that are oppressing the majority of human beings in this World.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:14 | 6340156 neilhorn
neilhorn's picture

I have inside knowledge on the 2008 crash that I cannot disclose,

 

That's bacause you are the Master of the Universe. Of course, you know more than the rest of us.

 

Edit: "Carrot and Stick", not "Carrot on a Stick".

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 00:19 | 6340298 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
MASTER OF UNIVERSE's picture

When we are discussing the 2008 crash, and where it is taking us collectively, yes I know more than the rest of you do. When it comes to everything else about Economics proper I do not. I am only claiming to know more than everyone else about the 2008 crash. Moreover, what I know is proprietary and if you want to know what I know it will cost you $30 trillion in physical gold bullion, which you don't have, frankly.

 

de Rothschild Bank can give me all their gold bullion if they want to survive in this World. If I don't get all their gold bullion they won't survive, it's pretty simple math.

 

:|

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 01:33 | 6340390 neilhorn
neilhorn's picture

No, unfortunately, I don't have that much gold. I wish your price were lower.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:13 | 6339955 Deathstar
Deathstar's picture

.....as my father would say,

"Hope in one hand and shit in the other, see which fills first"

When the HNIC started this "hope" blathering before he was elected, I knew he was going to be nothing but another fast talking shitskin from da' hood.

8 years later, I am not disappointed.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:07 | 6340145 neilhorn
neilhorn's picture

Listen, congratulations on getting all your stereotipacal, blathering bullshit about race and religion out in the open. If you were politically correct, I could not have known what your believed.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 00:15 | 6340284 Torgo
Torgo's picture

HNIC=Hockey Night In Canada?

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:33 | 6340022 Charles Offdensen
Charles Offdensen's picture

Here's the definition of O-bam-my-butt's hope and change.

I HOPE by the end of my reign you only have CHANGE left in your pockets. That way you have to come crawling to govt for help which is the way things ought to be.

PS- with all apologies to Rush

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:48 | 6340074 kchrisc
kchrisc's picture

"Hope?"

I hope my AK don't jam. I hope my guillotine don't rust. I hope my defensive positions go undiscovered. I hope my gold is deep enough. I hope I have water enough. I hope my basement cell is dry. I hope I have enough ammo. I hope my friends stay friends. I hope I can still get the occasional beer. I hope my Liberty Pole don't topple over. I hope the war is not long. I hope I can still get pancakes during the fight. I hope...

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:15 | 6340160 Deathstar
Deathstar's picture

I HOPE I can GTFO of this commie-kike conspired nightmare of a country before it gets flushed.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:29 | 6340195 neilhorn
neilhorn's picture

Maybe if you just try harder, you can. Try steerage to the place you want to go.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:53 | 6340088 neilhorn
neilhorn's picture

Just in time for the elections.

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Bugs Bunny saw and read the sign. Yet the he continued past the sign, therefore, abandoning all hope. The phraseology appears to be a pirate’s warning that whosoever enters the premises has no hope of going back to the way that he once lived.  Well, I submit that once you have committed to going forward, you have no path back whence you came. Even if you do not commit to going forward, and you turn around, you cannot get back to whence you came. Time moves in one direction, as far as we know and experience it. Go back in your memory, but you have no chance to go back and change it, or even experience it. Memories are the vestiges of the past. They can do no more than justify the choices that we made. The future serves only to create a complex web of possible decision points and choices have been and will continue to move into the past. A friend of mine, who was an accountant, once described time to me thus: The past is a cancelled check, the future is a promissory note. There is no guarantee except for today.

Therefore, if the past and the future have no present value, then we have no choice except to live for today. Give all the energy you have to living today, even if it means that diving into a notch in a cliff wall while wearing a wing suit is your last today. There is no other time to live than the time we have right now. Don’t let anyone tell you how to live this moment. Just try to choose a flight line that will carry you to the place you want to go.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:04 | 6340128 q99x2
q99x2's picture

Is it too late to impeach Obama? I guess it doesn't matter anyhow. We need a govenment damn it.

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 23:28 | 6340192 ted41776
ted41776's picture

hope 'n change bitches!

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 01:19 | 6340368 Atomizer
Atomizer's picture

Obama will need to lower the CIA ISIS flag to half mast.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 01:25 | 6340378 JoWazzoo
JoWazzoo's picture

Fuck Hope and Change.  And yeah - Fuck Obama who TOLD us "I will fundamentally change America" as the Motherfucker who learned Alinsky's Rules at the feet of Ayers and studied at Columbia at the feet of Cloward and Piven.  He TOLD us and this Marxist Motherfucker has fundamentally changed America.  Next time some sleeze piece of shit Mussie slips in and tells us he Will FUCK us - I hope peeps open thier GD eyes.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 03:19 | 6340487 DutchBoy2015
DutchBoy2015's picture

You goddam idiots and your ''muzzie'' bullshit.  Its the Zionazis that are pulling your chain.  Using false flag attacks like 911 with 19 Arab patsies.

Grow a brain, asswipe.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 03:21 | 6340489 DutchBoy2015
DutchBoy2015's picture

Here is chess master Bobby Fischer  (a Jew) talking about Jews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oO0_1oS_oU

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 03:23 | 6340491 DutchBoy2015
DutchBoy2015's picture

Here are the words of Ben Franklin 250 years ago.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great numbers, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.

 

"For over 1700 years the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, they call Palestine. But, Gentlemen, should the world today give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some cogent reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

 

"If you do not exclude them from these United States, in this Constitution in less than 200 years they will have swarmed in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance and jeopardized our liberty.

 

"If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them sustenance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, Gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, Gentlemen, are Asiatics; let them be born where they will, or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even though they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots.

 

"Jews are Asiatics, they are a menace to this country if permitted entrance and should be excluded by this Constitution."

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 06:30 | 6340635 new game
new game's picture

read and weep tyme, ha...

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!