The problem is they started too early.
This will be the Summer of high gas prices.
I agree. We’ve seen a bump each January with people optimistic about the year to come...partly out of human nature and partly because the media says it is so.
I expect we’ll see that optimism fade and real life events will bring people back to reality. If economic numbers do look much better, it could potentially stick, which politically could be dangerous in the long term. A slight uptick (although still historically poor numbers) could be painted as big improvement, and the voters will be fooled into thinking things are ok when we are still sitting in the bottom of a bad economic slowdown without any real comeback. We shall see.
It’s likely that 60% of people pay no attention and hear snippets of news in the background as they prepare dinner for the family, change radio stations or catch a headline as they pass a newspaper machine. It’s sad so many pay so little attention to something that impacts them so much.