Posts by Sam Gager

In 2014, we conducted a quarterly survey of senior business leaders to measure their optimism on the global economy, their country’s economy, and other indicators of economic growth. The LinkedIn Economic Confidence Outlook shed light into various aspects of the global economy by tapping into the minds of business leaders on LinkedIn in countries that represent...

Executive sentiment about the global economy’s future went from mixed in Q2 to almost universally declining in our Q3 LinkedIn Economic Confidence Outlook. Even Indian executives, who retained the highest level of optimism and who are optimistic about the Indian economy, declined in their optimism about the global economy by 10 percentage points to 61%. This...

The headline from our Q1 2014 LinkedIn Economic Confidence Outlook was “scattered optimism” about the global economy among business leaders. The latest results from Q2 show a decrease in the already moderate optimistic outlook among the majority of the 15 countries we surveyed, with one notable exception: India. Confidence in the global economy among business...