Chinese officials obviously felt confident enough in the recovery to go forward with the currency shift.
Small-cap dominance could be ending if central banks around the world start signaling that they are confident enough in the recovery to start hiking short-term interest rates, said James W. Paulsen, chief investment strategist for Wells Capital Management.
Many companies were not confident enough in the recovery to start spending again, said IHS Global Insight economist Daco.
If the Giants make the playoffs, Fassel indicated that Dixon might be far enough along in his recovery to play.
JPMorgan Chase estimates that these will subtract 1.8 percentage points, at an annual rate (see chart), from growth in the first half of next year, though it reckons there will be enough underlying momentum in the recovery to keep growth above 3%.Without a mini-stimulus bill, though, the drag increases to 2.4 points.
All of the US Federal Reserve's policymakers dismissed disappointing first-quarter growth numbers and expressed enough confidence in the American economic recovery to suggest that interest rate rises may need to be steeper than previously expected.
The weaker-than-expected job creation numbers led many traders to believe -- or hope -- that the U.S. Federal Reserve will now decide it does not have enough confidence in America's economic recovery to start reducing the extraordinary stimulus measures it has been taking for some time now.
Lawmakers charged that the White House's latest request of $44 billion for additional emergency relief funds is not enough to help in recovery following the recent spate of storms.
To those putting together that budget, and trying to pull threads on the current one, it's obvious that nothing short of a booming recovery can bring in enough to balance the budget.
But the World Bank paper is sceptical of claims that Africa's economic fundamentals savings, investment, productivity and export diversification have improved enough in the good times to keep the recovery going when commodity prices fall.
