I was chatting with my dad about this recently. He said, “I lived through some rough decades in this country. Not ‘civil war’ rough; but pretty close. Everyone

I was chatting with my dad about this recently. He said, “I lived through some rough decades in this country. Not ‘civil war’ rough; but pretty close. Everyone was predicting our decline. Everyone was wrong. We’ll be just fine.” In my experience, the doom and gloom folks— both micro and macro— have almost never had their predictions play out. There are always Eeyores out there. I prefer Pooh.