The economy has been steadily growing for the last five years, and inflation is way down from its peak nearly four years ago. Public opinion about the economy, by contrast, keeps plumbing new depths.
The big picture: Americans are decisively negative about the economic picture, despite conventional measures of economic performance remaining reasonably solid.
- It suggests both a new political state of nature and an undercurrent of gloom that traditional economic data and analysis don't quite capture.
