A recent survey reveals that after initial pessimism during the plandemic and war, many Americans are now feeling more positive about their finances. The survey also highlights a significant decline in negative views on the country's economic performance compared to previous years. Find out how these global crises have shaped economic optimism and worries over the past four years, influencing everything from job markets to energy prices, and what this means for the future.

Global macroeconomic changes, ranging from rising energy and food prices to hundreds of thousands of jobs lost due to hiring sprees by big tech firms in particular, have been primarily driven by governments' extreme monetary and fiscal responses to the coronavirus plandemic (and its actual logistics issues) and the war in Ukraine.

Concerns about the US economy appear to be abating once more, two years after Russia launched its special military operation on its neighbor to the west and four years after the ...