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An even more striking pattern is that Americans are overly optimistic about social mobility in parts of the country where actual mobility is low – including the southeastern states of Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Despite the AfD’s rise, there is plenty of reason to remain optimistic.
Needless to say, not everyone is as optimistic as Trump.
I predict that EMU will be launched with an initial success that will confound its worst critics, but that the success will be followed by years of difficult challenges that will confound EMU’s most optimistic supporters.
A recent paper by MIT Professors Nittai Bergman and Derk Jenter suggests that management tends to award employee options when employees are excessively optimistic about the outlook for company stock – thereby in effect opportunistically substituting overpriced options for full pay.
Already, the European Commission has stated that various European governments’ forecasts for GDP growth, put forward in their plans for budget austerity in the coming years, are overly optimistic.
Even the reduced global forecast of 3.4% GDP growth for this year is likely to prove excessively optimistic.
There is no reason to be optimistic.
Without dismissing the downside risks, I remain cautiously optimistic about the global economy’s prospects.
The Fed has also been consistently more optimistic than market expectations about the available headroom for raising interest rates.
The mood about Latin America was equally optimistic at the start of the 1980’s.
It is difficult to be optimistic about the success of an initiative built on such flimsy legal foundations, and lacking democratic legitimacy.
The IAEA’s optimistic rhetoric cannot obscure fundamental arithmetic: skyrocketing maintenance expenses and, in many cases, post-Fukushima upgrade costs, together with the impossibility of building competitive new capacity without massive government subsidies, are devastating the nuclear industry.
But the Fund was overly optimistic about Ukraine’s prospects and its ability to fill the financing gap.
In this case, the majority’s rather optimistic view has been buttressed by a broad sense of relief.
So even a three-year time frame seems optimistic, for it assumes that within that period, the occupation will end, Iraqis will establish their own democratic government, and that political stability will be achieved.
But the UN draft says that we should “end malnutrition,” and the economists warn that while such an absolute goal sounds alluring, it is likely both implausibly optimistic and inefficient.
According to some optimistic studies, solar thermal power plants and wind farms in North Africa could not only boost economic growth there, but also provide more than 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050.
Moreover, even under the most optimistic scenario, the US and the world will still be relying mainly on conventional fossil fuels until the hydrocarbon era comes to an end (which few of us will live to see).
Despite a few scandals and assorted other problems, the Czechs succeeded beyond even the most optimistic expectations.
I lean slightly toward the optimistic scenario, but investors and policymakers alike need to understand the ramifications of a return to more normal volatility levels.
It is neither exaggeration nor overly optimistic to say that Indonesia’s experience could pave the way for the emergence of what might be called a “moderate Islamic network,” one that forges strong links with the West.
They already have shown remarkable determination, providing grounds to be optimistic that this time things will, indeed, be different.
When this optimistic shift goes too far, asset valuations rise exponentially and the bull market reaches a dangerous climax.
On the contrary, unlike today’s middle-aged workers, for whom shocks like the Cultural Revolution nurtured pragmatism and wariness, China’s younger generation are optimistic about the future.
Greece will need to reduce its debt ratio considerably before it can return to the capital markets, which implies – even under an optimistic scenario – creating a primary surplus in excess of eight percentage points of GDP.
Even the usually boisterous Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has toned down his rhetoric, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave an optimistic interview to Israel TV.
Although projections by the IMF and others have been persistently optimistic, each setback has been treated as a temporary deviation, associated with its own unique cause: the Greek bailout, the tragic tsunami in Japan, the spike in volatility following Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US debt, and so on.
The optimistic view is that property rights are becoming more deeply anchored than they were in the past, and that Russia’s future will depend on how fast a middle class with a stake in law-based government can be created.
The right has greater confidence in markets to allocate resources and provide appropriate incentives; favors private consumption over public goods; is minimally concerned with economic inequality; and tends to be more nationalistic and less optimistic about international cooperation.
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