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How people feel about an economy is what actually matters, and no set of statistics will persuade someone who feels they are losing that they are winning.

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  1. Jennifer Burns

    Historian of ideas at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution

    And that's what matters, how people feel about it, how people perceive it, it matters. And we saw this recently, you can't just come out with a bunch of statistics and tell people you're winning in this game if they feel like they're losing.

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