Half Full or Half Empty, At Least the Glass Is Intact takes

Let us salute the 13 percent of respondents to an ABC News/Money poll last month who said the economy is getting better. Their sunny dispositions will stand them in good stead if they find themselves selling apples on street corners in the months ahead. Those of you sunk in gloom about the prospects of recession will be surprised (if not baffled) to learn that just 49 percent of this poll’s respondents said the economy is getting worse.