Originally Posted by tpb

As a great man once said, "there you go again".

Consumer confidence is a matter of perception--which is strongly influenced by the left-biased media.

A weak dollar is by design, and is actually an economic good thing.

Housing has NOT crashed. That also is a false perception which you and probably a lot of people buy into because of the propaganda spewed by the biased media. Housing SALES are down, not housing prices.

Despite an obvious increase in oil/gasoline prices and to a lesser extent food and other prices, inflation is extremely low and economic growth INCLUDING CONSUMERS' INCOME GROWTH is increasing at a much higher rate than inflation.

As you post illustrates, the crap put out by the media is wrong. The FACTS are that the economy is booming for virtually everybody--even though the biased media successfully convinces a lot of people otherwise.