Economic optimism among the chief executives at the country’s fastest-growing private companies has nosedived to its lowest point in 16 years, according to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
In the fourth quarter of last year, only 29 percent of the executives polled for the the professional-service company’s Trendsetter Barometer Survey were optimistic about the economy, compared with about 70 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006. But the execs were more optimistic about the global economy--55 percent versus, 73 percent the year before.
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--Carrie Mason-Draffen