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After all, despite their differences, virtually every country in Europe is currently grappling with the question of how much Europe it wants, how open and optimistic it should be about new forms of technology-enabled globalization, and how much social solidarity is appropriate.
The Fear of “L”WASHINGTON, DC – For the last few years, economists have been running through the alphabet to describe the shape of the long-awaited recovery – starting with an optimistic V, proceeding to a more downbeat U, and ending up at a despairing W. But now a deeper anxiety is beginning to stalk the profession: the fear of what I call an “L-shaped” recovery.
On the first day of the conference, United Nations climate change chief Yvo de Boer declared how optimistic he was about continuing the Kyoto approach: “Almost every day, countries announce new targets or plans of action to cut emissions,” he said.
At a time when many people are despairing about current political trends, the penultimate paragraph of On What Matters, Volume Three encourages us to take a longer and more optimistic perspective:“Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good.
A curriculum fostering inclusion must go beyond optimistic appeals to universal religious dictums such as “love thy neighbor” and the Golden Rule.
The recent failure of the Bank of England’s guidance to move markets in the desired direction might mean that investors are more optimistic about the British economy.
Such optimistic views were re-enforced when Chinese intellectuals--even some official scholars--began writing and speaking out in favor of re-evaluating controversial Party verdicts on historical incidents (such as the Tiananmen Square massacre).
Nonetheless, the continent’s inhabitants have at least eight good reasons – far more than most people elsewhere – to be optimistic.
I’ll make the optimistic but plausible assumption that the economy will fully recover over the next decade, lowering the unemployment rate from the current 10% to about 5%.
Last month, the IPCC released the full report, together with the data behind this startlingly optimistic claim.
Only then did it emerge that it was based solely on the most optimistic of 164 modeling scenarios that researchers investigated.
Moreover, even under this optimistic scenario, the problem of the current-account deficits of Italy, Spain, and the other peripheral countries will remain.
Today’s Productivity ParadoxNEW YORK – Recent trends in productivity growth make it hard to be optimistic about the future.
As a result, many – in and outside the Middle East – have become optimistic again.
But even to hope that the tide has turned may be too optimistic.
NATO Must PrevailDENVER – US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent prognosis of a “dim” and “dismal” future for NATO has triggered much debate, but it could well prove optimistic.
We are cautiously optimistic that the North and South can work together to ensure peace and prosperity for all.
We remain optimistic that others will continue to take the steps needed to end the scourge of rogue fishing and work together to regenerate ocean life globally.
But if we take a step back, it is clear that there are many reasons to be optimistic.
The natural course of history in the most optimistic sense is progress “at the margin,” but the rapid pace of technological change is pushing us to expect equally rapid progress in human affairs.
The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has perennially turned out optimistic budget forecasts.
Unrealistic macroeconomic assumptions, farfetched theories about tax cuts, and legislation that deliberately misrepresented policy plans all worked as intended, yielding overly optimistic forecasts, which in turn help to explain excessive budget deficits.
The result is that, unlike in most industrialized countries, Chile’s official forecasts of growth and fiscal performance have not been overly optimistic, even during economic booms.
And, as has happened repeatedly over the last decade, a few months into the year, others’ more optimistic forecasts are being revised downward.
Today, we are pleased to report that the program succeeded beyond our most optimistic expectations.
Actually, only those imbued with the optimistic spirit of social science recoil.
To be sure, it was based on unrealistically optimistic assumptions about the depth of the recession, the strength of the recovery, and the level at which unemployment would peak.
Our second message was optimistic: if the agenda of the current round is reoriented towards development, and if assistance is provided to manage implementation and adjustment costs, developing countries can gain much.
I had a successful visit to China in September, and I am clear-eyed but optimistic about the future of this important military-to-military relationship.
Renzi’s message, while skillfully crafted and optimistic, cannot mask the harsh economic reality in Italy today.
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