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Daily Economic News Sentiment

This data is from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank data repository. It captures a daily index of economic sentiment being reported in the news media. Negative values indicate pessimism. The data is smoothed.

By default, the chart (and the linked data table below it) show data starting January 1, 2025. You can change the time span by editing the Days to Display parameters immediately above the table. The earliest data available is from January 8, 2017.

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His Imperial Majesty Speaks!

mostly incoherently, but still…

“We’re gonna start a big investigation on [California’s high-speed rail project] because it’s — I’ve never seen anything like it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. And it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, ‘You don’t buy it.’ You take an airplane — it costs you $2. It costs you nothing.”