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So it turns out that optimists are not less likely to divorce, but they are more likely to remarry.
So optimists are people who expect more kisses in their future, more strolls in the park.
Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard-wired to be optimists.
The ones who didn't survive were the optimists.
And I think we have come to understand that the optimists rely on hope alone and they risk being disappointed and demoralized.
And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists.
Arguably the financial markets have failed us and the aid system is failing us, and yet I stand firmly with the optimists who believe that there has probably never been a more exciting moment to be alive.
But for those eternal optimists, there is a happy ending.
City living makes sour cynics out of teenage optimists (I'd count myself in until now), and this one is a lesson of keeping the best of yourself throughout life.
Optimists will note that the underlying fiscal situation in Greece is healthier.
Optimists argue that the short run macroeconomic impact of the deal to raise America’s debt ceiling and prevent sovereign default will be limited – roughly $25 billion in expenditure cuts in the coming year.
But, even if the optimists are partly vindicated, Xi’s claim that China has found a better way to run a modern society and economy seems far wide of the mark.
When Hong Kong was formally handed back to China 17 years ago, some optimists thought that the former colony’s greater freedoms would help to reform the rest of China.
But even optimists don’t believe that real-estate prices will increase substantially any time soon.
And the recent spike in the interest-rate spread on Italian government bonds should remind optimists that, with sovereign debt so high, many things can go wrong at any time.
Neither the optimists nor the pessimists were correct.
Addressing an international gathering that included Russia’s First Deputy Minister, US Secretary of Defense William Perry summed up the optimists’ version: "It is in Bosnia where we are sending the message that NATO is the bedrock on which the future security and stability of Europe will be built.
Optimists – fortunately, there remain a few, especially in Europe itself – believe that when the situation becomes really critical, political leaders will turn things around and put Europe back on the path of economic growth, job creation, and financial stability.
Optimists imagine a scenario in which production is rationalized, pipelines are built, grids are interconnected, and gas from Bolivia, Argentina, or elsewhere fuels growth throughout the continent, benefiting everyone in the process.
When Obama entered office in January 2009 and offered to “extend a hand” to Bush’s rogue states, optimists hoped for the negotiated denuclearization of North Korea.
– who agree with the optimists about the scale and scope of innovation but fret about the adverse implications for employment or equity.
Techno-pessimists recognize this; the optimists might not be wrong, but to make their case, they need to focus on how the effects of technology play out in the economy as a whole.
Optimists can envision a new generation of trans-Pacific flows of trade, investment, and knowledge, with benefits for all.
Optimists repeat the refrain that “this year is different”: after a prolonged period of painful deleveraging, the global economy supposedly is on the cusp of stronger growth.
Optimists point to the package’s ambitious goals as evidence of Xi’s commitment to reform, while critics cite its vagueness and lack of a specific timetable as grounds for caution.
Their lethargic performance, together with the eurozone’s, is the main reason why the world economy has not managed the 4.1% growth that optimists like me thought was feasible.
Or perhaps a long run of good fortune has left the financial market dominated by cockeyed optimists, who have finally figured that out.
For years, as optimists see it, China has been the world’s cheap assembly shop for shoes, clothing, and microwave ovens.
The optimists’ unreality is rivaled by that of supply-siders, who would apply shock therapy to China’s slumping state sector and immediately integrate the country’s underdeveloped capital markets into today’s turbulent global financial system.
Optimists and pessimists both have good arguments.
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