Gallup Poll Points To “Cautious Pessimism”

Gallup’s annual end-of-year poll for the Daily Telegraph shows people looking forward to 1995 with a mood of “cautious pessimism” – 30% believe 1995 will be better than 1994; 38% think it will be worse. This is not as gloomy a picture as the survey indicated in the mid to late 1970s and early 80s.

69% (79% last year) expect to see taxes rise in 1995; 73% expect to see rising prices, the highest percentage for five years. The number expecting 1995 to be a “year of economic difficulty” is the lowest since the beginning of the decade

Gallup interviewed 1,014 adults in over 100 districts between 30/11 and 6/12.