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By one measure, Californians got a surprising boost of optimism at the year’s end. The Conference Board’s monthly consumer confidence index for the state took its largest one-month jump on record for December. This yardstick of shopper psyche, created by polls that run to mid -month, date to 2007. My trusty spreadsheet found the California index jumped 48% between November and December, putting the index at a five-year high. This jump passed the old record upswing of 47% in April 2009, when the economy was.
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