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Speaker 1: Question for you about us. Are we chronic pessimists? Right?

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Speaker 1: This is what we've been talking about this morning. Just when,

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Speaker 1: just when will it be a good time to buy

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Speaker 1: a large household item? Ah, The A and Z consumer

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Speaker 1: confidence figures out Friday sunk again, Business up eight percent

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Speaker 1: eight points. Punters down to household items are fridge. We

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Speaker 1: haven't felt good about buying a fridge in any month

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Speaker 1: for four years, forty eight long months, month after month.

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Speaker 1: It's no time to be sticking a bit of Samsung

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Speaker 1: or sub zero or Melee on your house. Apparently, and

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Speaker 1: yet how can business feel half decent given the people

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Speaker 1: they deal with are miserable? And how is it? As

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Speaker 1: the bank pointed out that the stats don't actually align

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Speaker 1: with our mood. Spending us up, I repeat up, No,

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Speaker 1: not by a lot. This isn't the gold rush, but

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Speaker 1: spending us up. The job adds up. There are more

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Speaker 1: jobs being advertised. My bet is when the unemployment stats

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Speaker 1: arrived this week, it'll be five point two five point three.

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Speaker 1: But that'll be it. It'll get no worse. The layoffs

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Speaker 1: are over. There are genuine, tangible and disputable signs in

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Speaker 1: the economy that things have turned. Call them whatever you want, flickers,

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Speaker 1: green shoots, better days, but they are there now. Like

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Speaker 1: all economies, the tide doesn't rise and bring everyone with it,

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Speaker 1: but it has it has to bring some. Some must

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Speaker 1: be feeling better or good, or God forbid upbeat? Is

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Speaker 1: there a determination among some too many, that we will

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Speaker 1: simply not be happy. We refuse to accept the light

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Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel. Where once a trip

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Speaker 1: to the seaside and an ice cream on a sunny

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Speaker 1: day lifted the spirit. Now we want the whole circus

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Speaker 1: in a merch bag as well before we dare utter

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Speaker 1: anything remotely upbeat. I got no doubt, no doubt the

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Speaker 1: tide has turned. I see too many data points, too

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Speaker 1: many stats, too many results to feel any other way.

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Speaker 1: But New Zealand has caught a disease. You see it

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Speaker 1: in Britain particularly, they got it, they got it bad,

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Speaker 1: and also a little bit in Australia at the moment.

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Speaker 1: A refusal to accept good news the way we used to.

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Speaker 1: Where once the possibility was enough to lift a spirit,

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Speaker 1: now you need a tsunami to bowl you over. The

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Speaker 1: early bird, as always, will catch the worm on this

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Speaker 1: by the time we hit February or March of next year,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people joined the band wagon. The

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Speaker 1: early adopters will have been having a good time for months.

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Speaker 1: It's only negative if it's actually factually negative, being determined

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Speaker 1: to be that weighs a state of mind, not a reality.

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