We had a wonderful time rekindling friendships at Jessica and Adam's wedding. Jessica was a trifle past toddler age when we first became friends with her parents. Now she's married a wonderful young man, Adam, and they are transparently very much in love. You can't help but think what a bright future awaits them. We treasure the many life experiences we've shared during that time with our "Jersey" friends.
Perhaps it was the optimism generated by the wedding, but I detected anecdotal optimism in other areas including business. Doug, a long time sales professional and now entrepreneur in the mattress business, opines that business is "better than expected". Ron has worked many years in the diet and herbal supplements business. He remarked his firm's results were unexpectedly good last year with no let up this year. In fact, the company is adding warehouse and manufacturing space to meet demand. Andy is back on the job ordering pallets of off price closeout home goods. The lines were long at Marshall's even with four clerks working the registers. Gas prices were up several pennies a gallon in the past three days.
This chart from the Consumer Metrics Institute also suggests more optimism may be warranted. The uptick in the Institutes's Daily Growth Index (blue line) is the first in well over a year. Should I disembark the gloom and doom economy bandwagon, at least until the next crisis or bubble? Maybe, and if so, I will point to Jessica and Adam's wedding as the catalyst.
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