Buck Up, America. It's Going to Get Better

There are many reasons to be pessimistic. The economy continues to limp sideways, although limping is an improvement since the crash of 2008. Unemployment remains stubborn — not budging from 7.6 percent following Friday’s jobs report. Wages remain more or less stagnant. According to a study from the Urban Institute, Millennials may well be the first generation to live lives inferior to those of their parents. There seems to be plenty of fuel for the belief that the sun has finally set on U.S. prosperity, a setting reminiscent of the one over the British Empire in the 20th century.