Not very strong, apparently, if you are a CEO of a US business, as measured by the folks at the Conference Board.
Perhaps they should survey the Chief Market Strategists appearing on the extended infomercials that pass for financial news reporting in the States instead.
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994