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"If the business mood was unduly optimistic in 2007 I think it is unduly pessimistic today".
Lloyds Bank's latest barometer of business mood found confidence about trading prospects dipped to a three-year low in May.
Even the writers appearing who had a little more literary street cred seemed to be in a show business mood.
The report did not mention the upcoming EU referendum, but did draw parallels between the current business mood and the run-up to last year's general election.
Sentance said it was possible that the business mood in July "was affected by the shock of the vote and the political fallout".
Yet an upbeat business mood prevailed yesterday as the thoroughbred racing industry, with a more or less league office in place, crisply set out an agenda for horse racing.
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But nowadays it's like the fashion business: moods change, and it's hard to predict," he says.
He is in the UK promoting his book, More Human, which argues that ordinary people feel shut out of policy-making and increasingly frustrated with the "obscene" pay of those at the very top of companies, which can lead to a dangerous anti-business mood.
The anti-business mood has been fuelled by reports that Network Rail's chief executive, Sir David Higgins, whose basic salary is £560,000, could be shortly awarded up to £336,000 on top in an annual bonus – plus a total of £2.8m over a five-year period.
A few days before, while introducing Osborne at the Conservative party conference, Digby Jones, former head of the Confederation of British Industry, warned that companies are at risk of being killed by "regulation from 'big government'" and of drowning "in the mire of anti-business mood music encouraged by vote-seekers".
Contestants surrender, judges quit, and shoulder pads pop in and out of style, but the Sauma family business - Mood Designer Fabrics on West 37th Street - is a constant.
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