No antiques dealer would confide fears of slow sales to a reporter touring the fairs in Manhattan this week, despite the new American president's predictions that the struggle back to prosperity will be long and uphill.
But the necessary recipe to get us back to prosperity will be doubly on the defensive after November.
It has shown the world that the way back to mass prosperity is to let the private economy run.
In a world where just about every country is trying to export its way back to prosperity, capital controls are once again part of the toolkit for policymakers, and the IMF is now adopting a much less dogmatic approach than it did in the runup to the crisis.
With petrol cheaper than it was, and with Labour still mistrusted with money, David Cameron's pitch that he could lead the voters back to prosperity proved to be just persuasive enough.
A year from now, America will be on its way out of Afghanistan, the economy will be on a path back to prosperity, and Barack Obama will be on the road to a decisive reelection.
Romney must coherently demonstrate that he's the viable alternative, laying out the specifics of his plan to lead America back to prosperity. 1. Be a strong, convincing, inspiring leader not a dull, pedantic professor.
"Despite what ideologues on the left believe," Mr. Bloomberg said, "government cannot tax and spend its way back to prosperity, especially when that spending is driven by pork barrel politics.
What is left is a long grind back to prosperity.
Sindbad's movement from prosperity to loss, experienced during a voyage filled with adventure, and back to prosperity, achieved when he returns home, is repeated in the structure of each tale.
