These factors, coupled with recovering consumer confidence, have added up to a more successful January than we saw last year.
It was an address to the nation at a time when the economy is barely recovering, consumer confidence is at rock bottom and unemployment is up.
"The stabilisation and slight rebound in public opinion is occurring amid signs the economy is starting to recover, along with consumer confidence, and as memories of unusual snowstorms and scientific scandals recede," said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
Scottish & Newcastle, Britain's largest brewer, says its performance in the UK will recover this year despite declining consumer confidence, mounting grain and other costs, low-margin promotions on beer by the supermarkets, and the impact of the ban on smoking in pubs.
Overall consumer confidence recovered slightly from October, but remained low.
And it stayed depressed even though consumer confidence recovered slightly during the same period.
After plunging in September and October and dipping in November, consumer confidence recovered strongly in December.
It has the terrorists remaining inactive, policymakers responding rapidly, and the stock market and consumer confidence recovering gradually.
"We suspect that consumer confidence recovered some of July's sharp losses as consumers got over the initial shock of the Brexit vote," said Archer.
The market was gripped by IPO fever in the first few months of this year as investors threw off years of caution in search of companies that could benefit from the recovering economy and returning consumer confidence.
