No! It’s true! Forty-five percent think things are going to be WAYYYY better in the next months, just in time for Christmaskuh!
That’s up from 24% in December ’09.
John Ziegelbauer, national managing partner of Grant Thornton’s Financial Institutions practice, testifies:
Bankers across the country are starting to become more optimistic about both the U.S. economy and their own local economy…Their optimism about the economy is spilling over into their own banks, with bankers reporting that they are also cautiously optimistic about the number of people they expect to hire in the coming months. Overall, it appears that bankers believe that the economy has finally turned a corner.
Except that 55% of those surveyed expect to be the same (i.e. sucks) or get worse and don’t forget, no one is hiring.
On with the jobless recovery!
Big jump in number of bank execs that expect the economy to improve in next six months [GT]
