The casual LIV could easily interpret this headline to essentially mean "things are not as bad as they may seem."
The NYT will never tell it like it is if it's going to positively portray DJT in any way.
The NYT doesn’t have the guts to say why the economy is doing well now - ie Trump coming in and undoing everything Obama did. It doesn’t have the intellectual honesty to put the quotes from Krugman and others up showing things have turned out to be exactly the opposite of what they predicted when Trump cut taxes, cut regulation and renegotiated trade agreements to get a better deal for America.