“We’re in the fourth year of a lackluster recovery,” said Frank Hefner, an economist at the College of Charleston. “Either everyone’s getting immune to the news and has just accepted this is the way things are now, or there is an increase in confidence. That’s certainly better than a decrease in confidence.”
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