"Optimist in Chief," was what NBC's Savannah Guthrie called the President when he advised that we keep focused on "all the fundamentally sound aspects of our economy" as opposed to all that other stuff. ABC's Jake Tapper called it "economic cheerleading" backed by members of his administration "putting on economic smiley faces." Citing a slowdown in the rate at which consumer spending is collapsing, CBS' Chip Reid found "some glimmers of good economic news" while NBC's Guthrie added the tidbits of "housing inventories starting to decline, an unexpected rise in retail sales and signs of less nervousness in the bond market." ABC's George Stephanopoulos put it this way: "Some good news in the economy, some good news from banks, some good news in the stock market."
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