And the Recovery Act has just provided some significant degree of optimism.

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Indeed compared to the doom and gloom usually presented in opinion polls, Russians can exhibit a quite surprising degree of optimism on a few important questions.

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So, investors are also enjoying a high degree of optimism.

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The forward-looking indexes continued to signal widespread optimism, though to a somewhat lesser degree than in January.

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That has investor optimism rising and money flowing in to an unusual degree.

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