Who Has the Optimism? The Have-Nots
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The future looks bleak in much of the developed world. But it looks bright in the developing world, according to two surveys released in connection with the World Economic Forum.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 8--Business confidence ticked upward in the latest Bay Area Council survey of top executives, as optimists outnumbered pessimists by nearly three to one in the region -- and by more than four to one in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Usually at this time people try to look ahead with optimism to the year ahead whilst analysing the one that's just gone as positively as possible.
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Americans are optimistic about the next four years, but they have reservations about President Bush's agenda.
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A global survey of consumer confidence released Wednesday shows that European consumers are generally pessimistic about the economic outlook for the next 12 months, people in the Asia-Pacific are optimistic and Americans lie somewhere in between.
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Views you can use to get clues on Tuesday's news.
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History answers slowly. The success or failure of a new enterprise or idea seldom is determined in time for the 11 o'clock news. Even answers that seem final aren't always so. Someone comes along to change the outcome, to upset predictions.
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Does the science offer real hope or just hype?
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You say you want to remain cautiously optimistic. You have seen too many things over too many autumns so you are going to be patient and rational.
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Consumers worried about job prospects. Raises questions about whether Americans will be in spending mood during holidays. Worries about job prospects sent consumer confidence in the United States to a seven
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A global economy was thought to be more stable â but not if everyone is speculating.
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Chance favors the prepared mind, whether returns show it or not.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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Take advantage of a pessimistic environment in Ireland.
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Suppose that the pessimistic forecasts of global warming are accurate. Suppose that the planet's temperature rises according to the high-end scenario of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and that we experience the economic and social impacts (like hunger, malaria and coastal flooding) projected by the much-publicized Stern Review sponsored by the British government. [...].
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) yesterday offered an optimistic assessment of prospects for the world&#39;s leading industrialised economies.
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You don't have to give blindly, hoping for the best.