Public sentiment is skewed by republicans who cannot find anything to buy in any store to reduce the shame and taint of having climbed so far into the diaper of trump that they can no longer get out. They all tell pollsters that to them the economy feels bad.
A library of number crunching on recent economic polling shows this effect and that it accounts for much of the current divergence between expressed public sentiment and underlying economic factors that have typically tracked more closely through their history.
Red will continue to demonstrate this effect in microcosm through some of his posts here in the coming months as will that clown, Bambu