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“Views of current labor market conditions weakened. Consumers became pessimistic about future business conditions and less optimistic about future income,” Stephanie Guichard, the board’s senior economist for global indicators, said in a statement.

“Some people think I’m a little bit — not pessimistic, but not joyful enough,” he says.

“Although I’m famous as a pessimist, I really haven’t been pessimistic,” Davis told me in 2022, the last time we saw each other, months before he died of esophageal cancer at 76.

Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Assn., was also pessimistic about Cassidy’s prospects for making sure Kennedy upholds his side of the bargain.

Eddy said he was grateful for the support he has received from friends, family and peers since the strike and has not become disgruntled or pessimistic despite losing two limbs.