Despite all the noise, the media's daily hysterical hit pieces and broadcasts, and the manufactured sense of crisis that is the bread and butter of the left, the economy is doing well. Actually doing well.
Here we are 30 days ago.
"That's so much higher than anticipated," Trump said of the 2.6 percent annual growth rate in the gross domestic product for the April-June quarter. That figure, released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis last week, was right in line with forecasters' expectations.
"Remember I was saying we're going to try and hit 3 percent some time over the next period? Well, 2.6 is getting closer ... closer than we thought, and a lot faster than we thought," Trump said at a meeting with small business leaders at the White House. "But don't worry about the three, we're going to be higher than three in the not-too-distant future."
The not-too distant future is here.
The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter, notching its quickest pace in more than two years, and there are signs that the momentum was sustained at the start of the third quarter.
Gross domestic product increased at a 3.0 percent annual rate in the April-June period, the Commerce Department said in its second estimate on Wednesday. The upward revision from the 2.6 percent pace reported last month reflected robust consumer spending as well as strong business investment.
Confidence. It's a vital thing for people and countries to have. And despite the media's hate storm, the confidence is returning.