Those answers plunged into depression territory between July and August, and the index of optimism based on answers to this question is at its lowest level since the oil-crisis-induced “great recession” of the early 1980’s. It stood at 135, its highest-ever level, in 2000, at the very peak of the millennium stock market bubble.
7月和8月间，这些问题的答案指向萧条，而给出这一问题答案的乐观指数下跌到了20世纪80年代初由石油危机导致的“大衰退”以来的最低点。2000年，这一指数曾到达过135的历史最高点，当时正是千禧年股市大泡沫顶峰。2011年5月，该指数跌至88。9月，也就是4个月后，该指数又跌到了48。