On Wednesday, Gallup reported the public has never been more optimistic about personal financial prospects. A day later, it announced that we’ve also achieved record satisfaction in our personal lives.

In the past eight years, the number of people reporting that they’re satisfied in their personal lives has increased from 78% to 90%, a higher figure than Gallup has ever reported in its 41 years of studying this metric.

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