Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about confidence in Trump tanking the economy.

The conference board released its numbers, and for the first time since Trump took office, they didn't get worse.

The numbers rebounded, but the timing of the rebound is important to note

because it demonstrates something pretty clearly. The numbers fell for months as Trump tried to

implement his economic agenda. It was just a constant barrage of worse and worse numbers.

Then Trump caved, paused his tariffs, and started to back off,

while the courts exercised their power of judicial review and blocked a lot of his actions.

Guess what happened when Trump's economic agenda started being reversed or put on pause?

The numbers got better. People had more confidence

in the economy, and they expected things to improve. In short, the numbers show that Americans

know, not think, but know, that Trump's economic policies will hurt them. They know it on a level that shows up in the

surveys in a remarkably plain way. Stephanie Gashard, senior economist Global Indicators at the

Conference Board, said in a statement, quote, the rebound was already visible before the May 12 U.S.-China trade deal, but gained momentum

afterwards. The monthly improvement was largely driven by consumer expectations as all three

components of the expectations index, business conditions, employment prospects and future income,

rose from their April lows. Consumers were less pessimistic about business conditions and job availability over the next six months, and gained

optimism about future income prospects. Consumers' assessments of the present situation also improved.

However, while consumers were more positive about current business conditions than last month,

their appraisal of current job availability weakened for the fifth consecutive month.

The rebound started to occur before Trump caved, but gained momentum afterward.

Why did the rebound start before? Two reasons. Trump wasn't actively making it much worse with

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