Confidence Jump

And I know, baby
Just how you feel
You gotta roll with the punches
And get to what's real
--Van Halen

Gallup reports US economic confidence at nine years highs. The report notes that the jump detected in economic confidence since last month's election has rarely been matched since the survey's founding.

For those looking for flies in the ointment, Gallup reports that the last time its measures of economic confidence stood this high was January, 2008. We know what subsequently unfolded after that...