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Optimists predict a recession of the second type; pessimists suspect that a third variety recession is lurking in the economic shadows.
Even so, the optimists who spoke last year of a soft landing or a mild “V-shaped” eight-month recession were proven wrong, while those who argued that this would be a longer and more severe “U-shaped” 24-month recession – the US downturn is already in its 18th month – were correct.
The optimists back their claims of an earlier recovery by pointing to a variety of statistics.
The Velvet DelusionCOLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the relatively non-violent overthrow of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe, optimists predicted a new golden age of a world filled with peaceful democracies.
But the optimists have proved to be misguided, as the world’s powers, great and small, drew their own, often conflicting, lessons from the past.
Optimists emphasize its capacity for learning and rapid accumulation of human capital.
Optimists cheer the departure of the Bush administration and assume that the arrival of the Obama presidency, which unlike its predecessor is not in denial about the science of global warming, will unlock the prospect of a deal.
Optimists, touting GDP and other indicators, will continue to insist that Americans have never had it so good.
For optimists, what matters is believing in and nurturing the instinct of cooperation in the hope, and expectation, that decent human values will ultimately prevail.
And sometimes it is simply a long run of good fortune, which leaves the market dominated by unrealistic optimists.
After all, even if technology does meet the optimists’ expectations in terms of its impact on growth, the challenge of ensuring that the added growth is inclusive will remain.
As the old joke goes, optimists are learning to speak Chinese; pessimists are learning to use a Kalashnikov.
Optimists tend to believe that Kim’s declared intention to denuclearize is sincere.
But there may be a way to achieve denuclearization that satisfies both optimists and pessimists.
Optimists, by contrast, believe that advances like Big Data, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence herald a new era of technology-driven improvements.
How long this boom in productivity growth will continue is anyone's guess: optimists point to the fact that waiting behind the information technology revolution, ready for takeoff, is the biotechnology revolution, and behind that is a looming nanotechnology revolution.
Optimists beware: the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky--and the freezing of his shares in oil giant Yukos--will have a profound long-term impact on Russia's economy and on relations between business and government.
Since 2000, when PLO leader Yasir Arafat rejected a political settlement and instead launched a five-year war of terrorism, there have been few optimists left.
Where are Europe's Optimists?
But, just as optimists were too sanguine in the boom, ultra-pessimists probably go too far in forecasting a depression around the corner.
In the other direction lies a steep upward path to Europe’s integration and reemergence as a global power – the course, optimists say, that the continent will take as it wakes up and recognizes that it must have the capacity to weather the harshest storms.
The vultures were neither long-term investors in Argentina nor the optimists who believed that Washington Consensus policies would work.
Optimists say that technology will solve the problem.
Even relentless optimists are giving up.
Northern Ireland: Between Optimism and HopeBELFAST: The French say that optimists are those who don’t understand a question.
Optimists often stress two ways in which “China is different.”
Renewable electricity costs have fallen faster than all but the most extreme optimists believed possible only a few years ago.
A Better World Is HereCOPENHAGEN – For centuries, optimists and pessimists have argued over the state of the world.
The optimists, by contrast, cheerfully claim that everything – human health, living standards, environmental quality, and so on – is getting better.
While the optimists are not entirely right (loss of biodiversity in the twentieth century probably cost about 1% of GDP per year, with some places losing much more), the overall picture is clear.
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