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Mood of the Nation: Businessman Sees a Recovery | Synopsis

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Mood of the Nation: Businessman Sees a Recovery

My Show, 29 May 09 / 666isMONEY
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On the eve of the 2012 elections, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of Americans to try to gauge the economic mood of the nation. People were asked about jobs, housing, gas prices, retirement and other issues. Among them was a man in Boca Raton, Fla. : Jay Baker, 69. He owns a flooring business whose revenue dropped after the housing bust. Recently, though, Baker has begun to enjoy a recovery. The low point for Brookside Flooring came two or three years ago. The housing bubble had wrecked South Florida's home market. Construction barely existed. Companies were closing or shedding staff. Baker's company managed to survive. But it suffered. Now? Business has rebounded in the past few months. Sales are still down by about a third since 2008. But when you've withstood a savage housing bust, any sustained improvement feels gratifying. "Slowly but surely, it's coming back," Baker says.

People:

Jay Baker

Overall Sentiment: 0.160812

Relevance: 0.835642

SentimentQuote
-0.0710568"Slowly but surely, it's coming back," Baker says. ...
-0.0710568"Slowly but surely, it's coming back," Baker says. "I really can't pinpoint it. All I know is that it's getting better, and it makes me happy."
0"In a small town, when a large business goes out of business, the people are out of a job, but all of the small businesses are affected, too," he says. ...
0.382553"In a small town, when a large business goes out of business, the people are out of a job, but all of the small businesses are affected, too," he says. "When business is better, everybody's affected."
0.0141644"My wish for America is to get out of any recession or depression and go positive," Baker says. ...
0.0379076"My wish for America is to get out of any recession or depression and go positive," Baker says. "Let people have jobs again."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 6
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2925114
  • Mean: 0.0487519
  • Standard Deviation: 0

jobs

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.192729

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Barack Obama

Overall Sentiment: 0.0388777

Relevance: 0.148988

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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