Economics: The Amazing Global Optimism Gap: 1 More Way China Is Totally Weird

In the United States, 68% respondents reported a good personal economic situation versus but 31% reported a good national economic situation. Our 37% gap isn't even the biggest in the English speaking world: Only 15% of British people are optimistic about their economy, four times worse than the 64% that consider their personal finances strong.

Here is the world's optimism gap. Only in China and Egypt are people more optimistic about the country than their personal situation.

For more, see The Amazing Global Optimism Gap: 1 More Way China Is Totally Weird by Derek Thompson, July 12, 2012 at The Atlantic.