If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.

The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

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