Dr Jeff Cornwall

The Kauffman Foundation has connected what they consider the nation’s top economics
bloggers.  Although not all of us are economists, we all write our blogs with commentary on economic policy and/or trends.

Each quarter they survey us to see where we think things are in the economy.  We are an eclectic bunch, with a variety of journalists, academics, consultants, and just good old fashioned pundits.

This quarter the group was slightly more positive than the past quarter. 

Although 77 percent continue
to describe the economy’s overall condition as “mixed,” “facing
recession,” or “in recession,” 23 percent now believe the
economy is “strong and growing” or “strong with uncertain
growth”.

Here is the word cloud from our open ended response to the state of the economy:

This survey was from a few weeks ago.  Wonder what renewed inflationary pressures, record federal deficits, and unrest around the globe will do to change our collective perspective next quarter…