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"pessimism" Definitions
  1. pessimism (about/over something) a feeling that bad things will happen and that something will not be successful

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A climate under control The pessimism towards AI uptake is surpassed by the pessimism towards climate change inaction.
Whether my pessimism was Russian or adolescent, it didn't matter; pessimism doesn't play in sunny, bro-dawg San Diego.
BM: I think it will remove some of the pessimism, I'm not sure it's going to remove all of the pessimism.
But his ambivalence resonated: Octave Mirbeau defended Vallotton's pessimism against charges of aggression and arbitrary negativity, describing it as a pessimism in sincere search of the truth.
Contagious pessimism can flip an economy from one equilibrium to another, in which cautious consumers spend less and hiring and investment fall accordingly, validating the initial outbreak of pessimism.
"There's a certain amount of pessimism I'm reading about, maybe it has to do with a mild stock market correction," Mr. Kudlow said, before describing such pessimism as misplaced.
But I worry that deep pessimism about the state of the world is paralyzing rather than empowering; excessive pessimism can leave people feeling not just hopeless but also helpless.
That is all they have left — pure negativity, pessimism.
The experience of modern economies suggests such pessimism is unwarranted.
And I know there's a lot of pessimism out there.
Last week's pessimism over the referendum knocked Wall Street lower.
I have no idea whether Mr. Gordon's pessimism is justified.
But they are united in their pessimism about the future.
The truth, of course, lies somewhere between pessimism and optimism.
This same pessimism is slipping into the media as well.
I do not know how to respond to such pessimism.
And pessimism makes possible all sorts of nostalgic, reactionary politics.
Pessimism is now the mainstream, with optimists viewed as Pollyannas.
The danger now is that pessimism rather than realism rules.
Big love is hopeful, but today pessimism is in vogue.
The pessimism level was last higher on March 9, 2017.
Fukuyama's new pessimism is far deeper than his discarded optimism.
"A profound and numbing pessimism" pervades campuses, the authors write.
To be sure, there's a bright side to the pessimism.
Responses from voters resemble the pessimism of 22012 years ago.
Global pessimism about nuclear proliferation permeates this year's report card.
Honestly, that outcome is as inevitable as our British pessimism.
If you're Glenn Beck, Thacker's pessimism is a political threat.
How is pessimism related to your condition, if at all?
He deflected others' pessimism and rewarded those who were optimistic.
But in the United States and China there is pessimism.
The retail industry has been pushing back against the pessimism.
It would be unwise, however, to give in to pessimism.
The pessimism is the result of three widely believed myths.
Warning: quixotic pessimism will not go over well in public.
"This is not a time for pessimism," Mr. Trump said.
For Angela Merkel, it was an uncommon note of pessimism.
The statistics on golf courses seem to support this pessimism.
"I think that's where the pessimism comes from," he continued.
Other parts of the market, like energy, are in pessimism.
In other words, the pendulum swung too far into pessimism.
Many expressed deep pessimism about the process and the outcome.
Conservatives even like to joke about their inclination toward pessimism.
If you're a pessimist, you see pessimism, and so forth.
Although the exact mechanism through which pessimism affects health hasn't been identified, researchers at Yale and the University of Colorado found that pessimism is associated with a weakened immune response to tumors and infection.
First, this betrays a certain pessimism toward the power of counterarguments.
It reveals a data-driven pessimism that all but guarantees defeat.
Given the pessimism over sales, businesses remained hesitant to increase inventory.
Questions about future employment also showed a growing share of pessimism.
A review of the recent evidence suggests this pessimism is misplaced.
There are many reasons for pessimism and one for guarded optimism.
But that pessimism is also shared by the President's Democratic enemies.
Yet while London's problem is complacency, Hong Kong's pessimism seems overdone.
Bernardino shooters' iPhones—it's hard not to conjure the pessimism of
So it's a pretty good sign of pessimism within the ranks.
Pessimism among investors reflects not just the indicators pointing towards recession.
And second, how do we foster healthy pessimism without losing hope?
But none of the scientists I spoke with shared my pessimism.
Perhaps there is too much pessimism about the global economic outlook.
In Vietnam, dissident Nguyen Quang A expressed pessimism about Trump's visit.
Many shuffle about their daily tasks suffused in gloom and pessimism.
Fear proves contagious, leading to a spiral of self-fulfilling pessimism.
" She rebuked his pessimism with Franklin Roosevelt's dictum about "fear itself.
My contribution was my pessimism, planning for things to go wrong.
Steyer waved away pessimism about the environment on the whole, however.
Well, I think that in this moment we're seized by pessimism.
"Nihilism or Afro-pessimism doesn't necessarily get us anywhere," Patterson says.
Some will find Mr Trump's extreme pessimism off-putting, or implausible.
Lawmakers, some of them caught up in the occupation, expressed pessimism.
"I came around to it after my initial pessimism," she said.
We read aloud and laughed through this curmudgeonly ode to pessimism.
I don't know, I think the pessimism this year is warranted.
HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - China's auto pessimism could be over-revved.
Mr. Sepúlveda Morell cautioned against excessive pessimism about Puerto Rico's prospects.
South Korean stocks dropped 0.43%, hurt by pessimism over global trade.
But the longer bear markets last, the more pessimism they spread.
When that happens, his pessimism can get the best of him.
That's not an expression of political pessimism, though I feel plenty.
Its public intellectuals are addicted to overstatement, sloppiness, pessimism, and despair.
However, Ms O'Reilly thinks demand for interims could indicate business pessimism.
But we cannot solve these problems with pessimism, populism or insularism.
Looking at each sector, Wilson reiterated his pessimism on information technology.
Wang: I also feel pessimism around fake news and echo chambers.
It clearly isn't, and my natural inclination is towards pessimism too.
A reading above 100 shows optimism, while below that indicates pessimism.
"The pessimism surrounding WeWork is affecting Uber and Lyft," Morgan said.
" Wall Street's pessimism, he said, is "well ahead of the data.
The concerns about trade come amid increasing stock market pessimism from CFOs.
Which is not to say that pessimism and futility are the only
The surge in pessimism has come with a corresponding slide in bullishness.
Populist election victories in America and Europe prompted another outpouring of pessimism.
Personally, when I detect fear and pessimism in markets, I smell opportunity.
But the pessimism of his analysis sits uncomfortably with these rosy scenarios.
That seemed to dispel pessimism about the economic impact of the coronavirus.
"I think my pessimism is getting the best of Gayle," he admits.
The pessimism level fell to 26.6 percent, its lowest since mid-August.
But to reject pessimism and nostalgia as simply inaccurate misses the point.
Despite his pessimism Thursday, Trump said he would nonetheless wait until Feb.
At the Capitol, Axios' David Nather and Caitlin Owens hear only pessimism.
But Democratic optimism is also based on a pessimism about the economy.
Do you see yourself as deliberately pushing back against a pervasive pessimism?
Here are seven reasons optimism beats pessimism every day of the week.
Yet after the Depression, governments took on the job of countering pessimism.
This comes with a corresponding pessimism about the future of the Republic.
Corn single-handedly led this boost in pessimism from the grains side.
American anger and pessimism have transcended party ideology in this year's elections.
"We've gone from pessimism to optimism," Fox News host Laura Ingraham said.
Cowardice, fearfulness, cynicism, negativity, discouragement, and pessimism are all opposites of boldness.
In the next debate, Clinton should rebut Trump's over-the-top pessimism.
In recent months, his playful pessimism had deteriorated into something more demoralized.
It's an aphoristic, compelling, and depressing book on the nature of pessimism.
Pessimism is not an ingredient in the alchemy of building a startup.
It's also about the pessimism with which we greet any beautiful man.
Back then we were desperate, and our activism was filled with pessimism.
I'm only arguing that optimism about 2020 makes more sense than pessimism.
I think we're kind of over the whole pessimism of it all.
Such pessimism can become self-fulfilling, discouraging businesses from expanding and hiring.
Mr. Buras sees in Mr. Kaczynski a pessimism about the European project.
Now for some economic optimism — or at least an absence of pessimism.
That's hard to say, and there are plenty of reasons for pessimism.
Pessimism increases inflammation in the body and fosters metabolic abnormalities like diabetes.
There is growing pessimism among millennials in developed countries about their futures.
Their pessimism stemmed from the defection of a key leadership ally, Rep.
"Despite the universal pessimism, oil is poised to break out," Tuey wrote.
Like his literary models, Bacon's art, for all its pessimism, isn't nihilistic.
So there's reason for some pessimism, but that was always the case.
But this pessimism is counterproductive and simply empowers the forces of backwardness.
That assumes a pessimism about America and its people and its country.
Some showed love, obsession, and devotion while others showed pessimism and hopelessness.
But the pessimism about the possibility of a female president was deeply felt.
But it seems that the pessimism about the Chinese economy is not enough.
MP: I wouldn't do my job if I had an ounce of pessimism.
That seemed to dispel pessimism about the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
Pessimism, and the associated perfectionism, may be a German strength—but in moderation.
But in recent years pessimism and negativity have taken on a destructive edge.
That pessimism is weighing far more heavily on traditional automakers than technology companies.
The turbulence in the markets is causing pessimism over the economy to grow.
" In some ways, that pessimism, as Sehgal notes, is Three Women's "great strength.
This correspondent found himself gripped by a disconcerting mix of optimism and pessimism.
Some say they've never felt so much pessimism about white America, such hopelessness.
It nevertheless manages to channel the pessimism of that long-ago Manhattan businessman.
"Optimism, pessimism, fuck that," he once told WIRED about his other company, SpaceX.
The pessimism in Japan, France, Germany and Britain reflects a variety of factors.
"I believe there is a lot of pessimism," Kuczynski said on RPP radio.
What changed was King's pessimism about white willingness to address racism and poverty.
A lot of his pessimism stems from the prevalence of high-frequency traders.
With few exceptions, Black Mirror tends toward pessimism for our high-tech future.
Uncertainty and pessimism have dominated the economic and business news in recent months.
But in covering the opioid epidemic, pessimism has, sadly, served me very well.
Left pessimism appeals to one side of Americans' outlook, completely missing the other.
But they also point to higher inflation and pessimism for fixed income investments.
That yielded an overall neutral sentiment index after two consecutive quarters of pessimism.
This has led to a campaign season driven by fear, resentment and pessimism.
Across Western New York, baked-in pessimism has given rise to contagious optimism.
"There's some pessimism relating to what the beef market has done," Sands said.
"There was just a huge amount of pessimism" about economic growth, he said.
"Our sentiment composite indexes have shown pessimism [rising] on small corrections," he says.
There's a kind of deep pessimism towards adulthood in all of your books.
These are sobering results, but the researchers caution against any kneejerk cosmic pessimism.
So we cannot have negative nellies out there fanning the flames of pessimism.
Despite their pessimism, Chetty and his co-authors offer a ray of hope.
I encounter with some embarrassment flickers of hope and dreams beneath my pessimism.
Some groups had balked at the conclusions, which expressed pessimism about American options.
His spiritual mood, marked by a sardonic cultural pessimism, is suited to match.
Well, your pessimism must be right, but my article was about political strategy.
This pessimism is affecting not just major companies but the European economy broadly.
But once pessimism becomes entrenched, even that may not offer a quick fix.
But fatalist pessimism is as dangerous as lying about the crisis at hand.
They found destruction, pessimism and blame, but also resilience and determination to rebuild.
You talk about the negative power of pessimism, and the positive of optimism.
However, the same pessimism doesn't appear to be driving the outlook for 2020.
Greater uncertainty gives economists a broader canvas upon which to project their pessimism.
But once pessimism becomes entrenched, even that may not offer a quick fix.
Economic pessimism has consequences for how individuals behave politically, regardless of its source.
This would suggest that he is not just the candidate of economic pessimism.
Behind social conservatives' Trumpian turn, I suspect, is deep pessimism about America's future.
But there are three main reasons for optimism (or just not outright pessimism).
For sure, one week of brighter data isn't enough to shift entrenched pessimism.
"Pessimism sells more newspapers and draws more clicks than stories of success," it said.
"Rabin" is not merely an expression of political pessimism, though it certainly is that.
Some people have a pessimism bias, and this bias is associated with depression symptoms.
He has no patience for pessimism, even when grounded in political or economic reality.
NBC host Megyn Kelly expressed pessimism about the state of political journalism on television.
Plus, he expects positive sentiment to overtake pessimism once the headline risks get settled.
The bearishly inclined have more options than ever to suit their degree of pessimism.
A recession, after all, is nothing more than a rut of self-ratifying pessimism.
Maria has shown me that resilience is the antidote to hopelessness, despair and pessimism.
They are also indicators of changes in society's optimism and pessimism, our social mood.
And in the background, financial markets plummeted Thursday, weighed down by year-end pessimism.
I think both brands of techno-pessimism — tired impotence and dangerous omnipotence — are wrong.
Pessimism bias occurs when individuals overestimate how often negative things will happen to them.
There's sweetness and optimism here, however entwined with cynicism and pessimism it might seem.
Climate action is being blocked more by pessimism about innovation than skepticism about causation.
The trends indicate that pessimism among Americans about the nation's economic future is growing.
"There is great pessimism across the region," said Yavuz Celik, 32, a local shopkeeper.
That'd be no small feat considering the overwhelming amount of pessimism in the marketplace.
After initial pessimism about the man's prognosis, Hendren and his colleagues became cautiously optimistic.
You'll find no such pessimism around the Washington, D.C., headquarters of Priorities USA Action.
Thacker's pessimism has not just influenced me, but mass media and culture in general.
That compared with a 37.5 percent pessimism level in the previous poll in April.
Italy's stock market reflected the pessimism, plunging further into a bear market on Tuesday.
Pessimism emanating from the stock market could leave consumers and businesses scared to spend.
The March jobs gain probably won't be enough to dispel all the pessimism, though.
For all of these reasons, one would have forgiven Teodoro for turning to pessimism.
It isn't pessimism that says it'll be another night late to the stove today.
Younger voters are fed up with the country's history of pessimism and oppressive consensus.
Business expectations also fell, down 6.7 points to 44.9 last month, indicating growing pessimism.
But a growing number of analysts now argue that this pessimism is becoming outdated.
Yet there's pessimism on Wall Street that a tax-reform package will become law.
McCullough said uncertainty is "far, far worse" from a CFO's perspective than outright pessimism.
The Trump presidency began with an inaugural speech that was a proclamation of pessimism.
It found that CEO pessimism about global growth is currently at a record high.
A survey reading above 50 indicates optimism while a reading below 50 indicates pessimism.
The four questions  were: Both Republicans and Democrats average 653 on the pessimism scale.
But it does suggest the depths of his pessimism about the American political system.
To get a handle on the relationship between candidate support and economic pessimism, I combined four survey questions from the ANES 2016 pilot study into a single measure, giving each respondent an economic pessimism rating from 0 (least pessimistic) to 1 (most pessimistic).
But the Fed's problem is less its target than an unforgiving pessimism about American productivity.
We live in the midst of difficult times, and pessimism about our institutions seems natural.
So do you think the market is overdoing it here in terms of its pessimism?
Tocqueville believed that liberal optimism needs to be served with a side-order of pessimism.
His endless tirades declaring America's downfall added to the pessimism that helped defeat the Democrats.
The political pessimism among millionaires is not being driven by Democrats, which would be predictable.
Falling Treasury yields are a litmus test for pessimism, and there's plenty of that around.
"We must not let pessimism take hold, lest it creates self-fulfilling expectations," he said.
In contrast to consumers, business leaders have been captured most intensely by the recent pessimism.
But on Thursday, the bears' pessimism turned out to be overblown, and the obituaries, preemptive.
"The most important influences of optimism and pessimism are on people's motivation," she tells Broadly.
Maurer's pessimism adds to the impression that the political impasse is unlikely to break soon.
However, despite this goldilocks environment, a specter of pessimism is looming over the U.S. economy.
And even here, there is still anxiety and pessimism about the health of the economy.
This methodology lets winners keep running, and doesn't allow overzealousness or pessimism skew new trades.
AMLO and his party have not reacted well to such pessimism from the investment community.
This pessimism offset the positive sentiment from trade news that was out over the weekend.
Therapeutic pessimism and institutional decay ensued, new reforms were introduced, and the cycle began again.
Pessimism can be a form of penance, and of spiritual humility in a humanist age.
Nine in 10 Republicans voiced pessimism, a strong indication that they will back Mr. Trump.
Despite Faber's pessimism, some data points have shown reasons for hope in the U.S. economy.
One thing that could mitigate the second-half pessimism is a shift in investor cash.
I'd approach this narrative with cautious pessimism until we see more evidence on the field.
That has fueled some pessimism about whether the early boom in M&A would continue.
Voter turnout was a low 44.5 percent, indicating widespread voter apathy and pessimism, observers said.
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism.
The latest move, then, can be seen as a recalibration of Wall Street's overriding pessimism.
It's hard to look at our current moment and conclude that Lippmann's pessimism was misplaced.
" Their conclusion: "Experiencing more anger triggered more optimistic beliefs; experiencing more fear triggered greater pessimism.
But occasional and understandable bouts of pessimism aside, "Truth in Our Times" is not dire.
Pessimism in the face of one's mortality is probably more common than sunny carpe diem.
Yang, a businessman, presents a notable example of the twinned qualities of pessimism and hope.
But pessimism about the U.S. market increased to one-third from 8 percent last year.
Rising pessimism about corporate profits and a wider economic slowdown have rattled the stock market.
His pessimism was palpable, but he held out hope: ''We will not be devoured easily.
Factory orders plunged in the first two months of 2019 and sentiment surveys reflect pessimism.
According to a new study by Bank of America, I'm not alone in my pessimism.
The index has remained in negative territory -- meaning pessimism outweighs optimism -- for seven straight months.
The pessimism of the mind and the optimism of the heart, as Gramsci would say.
Pessimism about future living standards declined only slightly for Democrats, from 24 to 21 percent.
" And in 2015, he panned the "preachers of pessimism" who "prattle endlessly about America's problems.
The case for Snapchat pessimism goes like this: Snapchat is mostly an app for teenagers.
You gave a good set of reasons for pessimism that anything will happen this year.
" In fact, the study's authors write, "Those who were in the highest quartile of pessimism had nearly a 2.2-fold higher adjusted odds ratio for death from CHD during the 11-year follow-up period when compared to those in the lowest quartile of pessimism.
"Engineer's pessimism is what's at play; the question is who's right" — the pessimist or the optimist.
Nonetheless, fear, anger and pessimism are all around us, even up here in the Swiss Alps.
Investors want to see the impact on the U.S. jobs market before reassessing the current pessimism.
The lyrics point to underlying pessimism, but there's some good old fashioned love in there, too.
But people need to remember that bull markets don't end on pessimism; they end in euphoria.
Despite the growing pessimism, Jones said the Fed is locked into a hike at the Dec.
"Our job is to defeat this pessimism with action," says José Ramón Valente, the economy minister.
Mr Trump's exaggerated miserabilism, about the state of America and the world, chimes with that pessimism.
Pessimism is growing among wealthier Americans, according to results from the spring 2016 CNBC Millionaire Survey.
But this was a speech that revealed a deep pessimism about America's present, and correctly so.
"It has raised pessimism in the shadow of Brexit, " Paulsen said, referring to the GDP number.
Optimists explained away traders' apparent pessimism using arguments that have started to crop up again today.
He explained how pessimism is self-fulfilling, while optimism leads people to try until they succeed.
In a moment of pessimism, your support made me and my friends here enormous happiness [sic].
A majority of them blame headwinds stemming from the trade war with China for their pessimism.
"I've never seen so much pessimism out there," he said of the weeks before the election.
It's more beneficial to your career to address when pessimism, or speaking negatively, is actually needed.
But Denkenberger argues that technology has advanced far enough that there's no reason for such pessimism.
Should this data hold and pessimism sink in, investors could be in for even more trouble.
Keep your pessimism in check and connect with nature—flora and fauna always helps your spirits!
I would call the belief that activism can merely avert "major disasters" a form of pessimism!
Even her life plans—she wants to move to Los Angeles—are colored by her pessimism.
Many favored bonds of pipeline operators, saying excessive pessimism has sunk their prices to distressed levels.
In fact, and unfortunately, a certain amount of techno-pessimism has gained currency on the left.
This philosophy of pessimism offers a solution to a lot of distress and agitation around marriage.
It's easy to allow yourself to slip into pessimism or take on an air of indifference.
The more serious problem is today's pervasive and self-reinforcing pessimism, which feeds the reactionary impulse.
Americans' anger and pessimism are more fundamental than anything that can be explained by G.D.P. statistics.
The mood was one of stark pessimism, particularly when the topic turned to the United States.
The competing interests come amid increasing pessimism from GOP senators that they'll arrive at a deal.
Alvy's morbid pessimism seems right at home in this catastrophic second decade of the 21st century.
But in Gaza there was pessimism that the latest ceasefire would be a long-term solution.
The not-so-good news: The longer that bear markets last, the more pessimism they spread.
Pessimism, along with the rising cost of living, has turned some young Chinese into penny pinchers.
And despite the grief at its heart, "The Staircase" never lapses into grimness or plodding pessimism.
In it, Robinson suggests moving past the question of optimism or pessimism in our shared struggles.
Ultimately, greater understanding of Arab youth will promote progress and peace, rather than polemics and pessimism.
With all that said, Woodruff notes that there's a difference between depression and regular old pessimism.
This is a performance-based approach that bridges the gap between seller optimism and buyer pessimism.
In the post-meeting statement, the Fed dropped some of its prior pessimism about sluggish inflation.
In general, there are a few notable differences across different groups in their levels of pessimism.
In context, then, Musk's AI concerns are not an out-of-character streak of technological pessimism.
In the United States, I encountered a kind of pessimism and listlessness that I didn't expect.
When I hear people make the case for pessimism, that case often resolves down to climate change.
You say you incline to pessimism but that this book gave you reasons to be optimistic. Why?
Leo Damrosch, in his biography, couches the notion of the general will in terms of Rousseau's pessimism.
Wambach pointed to political uncertainty at home as another factor behind the growing pessimism among German investors.
That uncertainty will provide room for pessimism to feed on itself and perhaps grow into something unmanageable.
And I was just trying to show how pessimism happens when dark things run out of control.
Some of this pessimism is tactical: if operators were more enthusiastic, equipment vendors would raise their prices.
Now companies are echoing those concerns with a level of pessimism not often seen from corporate America.
With elements of pessimism and cosmic annihilation, this record throws salt into the wounds of all saviors.
A drop in inflation expectations pushes up the real interest rate, squeezing borrowing and adding to pessimism.
Put it together with a stable and reliable dollar, and we can move from pessimism to optimism.
Notwithstanding that aluminium prices are now 4 percent lower than last April, investors' pessimism has two drivers.
Both Odey and Hargreaves said one reason for their pessimism was a lack of direction from Brexiteers.
Perhaps the most damaging for Sanders' campaign, however, was the pessimism about future donations to Sanders campaign.
Besides, look at it this way: It is basically impossible to out-pessimism Donald "American Carnage" Trump.
Risks from Brexit to Italian political uncertainty and turmoil in Hong Kong have added to the pessimism.
"There has been a fair amount of pessimism in the last 15 days or so," Sinha said.
But optimism in airline stocks was counteracted by pessimism in the energy sector, which fell 0.4 percent.
The pessimism about government extends to the prospects for government progress on a number of top issues.
"There have been trade philosophy books that have tried to recast pessimism as self-help," he said.
The view about economic growth is also changing, as the pessimism for implementation of Trump policies increased.
Moreover, some recent campaigns have shown that pessimism undergoes an intriguing shift as Election Day draws closer.
BUT I'M NOT SO SURE, I DON'T NECESSARILY SHARE ANYONE'S PESSIMISM THAT AMERICA MIGHT BAIL OUT ENTIRELY.
For all his pessimism, Mr. Naipaul was confident that what he called "Our Universal Civilization" would prevail.
With "Black Book," Venet approaches, but never reaches, the absolute no-saying of Reinhardt's studied mystic pessimism.
At present, though, this all amounts to the same kind of pessimism the show has always known.
That partly reflects optimism about the improvement in those economies rather than pessimism about the United States.
Because such pessimism eluded one of them, Pete Buttigieg, the millennial former mayor of South Bend, Ind.
For companies reporting earnings, markets in the throes of pessimism and fear don't make for receptive audiences.
Whatever the truth, it's undeniable that the market is defying expectations and making pessimism a losing strategy.
The Fed's statement, released after Yellen's final meeting Wednesday, removed some of its prior pessimism about inflation.
They were all in somewhat unique circumstances, but nonetheless suggest possible caveats to the study's overall pessimism.
This deep pessimism is central to Mambéty's work, which presents a vision of Senegal under constant exploitation.
The historic preservation movement, which rose from the vandalized station's ashes, was born of a new pessimism.
It appears that the pessimism about capitalism is making some Democratic voters more receptive to socialist candidates.
It was really about expressing a tranquil, calm joy in the face of pessimism and buzz-harshing.
And if it's him, it means that pessimism really has trumped optimism, and we've turned a dark corner.
This pessimism, this apathy, coupled with the authoritarian mindset that death fixes all problems, made me feel sick.
Khamenei cautiously backed the deal, but has repeatedly expressed pessimism about the United States remaining committed to it.
There's a cynicism or a pessimism inherent in this, of course, and there's also a sense of melancholy.
"The pessimism on the revenue off of universal banks, specifically for 2016, is a little overdone," he said.
Optimism, because local heroes like Ms Wilkes are doing wonderful work; pessimism, because they face such daunting problems.
To test this possibility, I reran the model to include an interaction between racial resentment and economic pessimism.
OANDA's Innes, however, cautioned that pessimism over the dollar/yen pair remained high, despite the yen's relative weakening.
BUSINESS PESSIMISM GROWS What began as a movement to oppose the extradition law has taken on broader demands.
" As a result, he said, the government has "drifted into a mindset of pessimism, passivity, fear, and victimhood.
But the pessimism is what carried the major averages higher in the first half of 2019, he continued.
Yet, although the reborn left gets some things right, its pessimism about the modern world goes too far.
As for the pessimism regarding manufacturing jobs, automation unquestionably has enabled the sector produce more with fewer employees.
The survey also showed deepening pessimism, with British factory output growing by the smallest amount since July 2016.
Even so, the improvements for black men run counter to the drumbeat of pessimism about race in America.
In a book that otherwise oscillates between anger and pessimism, there is a single ray of hope: Brexit.
It's an ambitious but massively uneven book — mixing wide-eyed wonder with a pessimism that borders on sociopathy.
Another reason is "smell of death" pessimism (buying an annuity means giving up hope of investing for gain).
Vaults full of research attest to how emerging-market optimism is more soundly based than rich-country pessimism.
Indeed, these artworks make you think about the past, ever reminding us that political pessimism is nothing new.
He points to a contrarian indicator: pessimism — a factor that's still playing a major role on Wall Street.
The increasing pessimism has supported risk-off trades that benefit safe-haven assets like the yen and gold.
And despite the understandable pessimism from Caps fans, the team already showed it could flourish without Nicklas Backstrom.
Still, the pessimism around Trump's capabilities to repeal and replace could push the index lower and cause disappointment.
One of the more glaring examples of how strong pessimism has become is Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index.
It might sound odd, but pessimism relieves the excessive imaginative pressure that our romantic culture places upon marriage.
The mood of pessimism is even starker among African-American civilians, especially in the wake of Yanez's acquittal.
Today, this mechanism breeds pessimism and negativity through the mind's tendency to wander until it finds a threat.
To be sure, given the tense political climate, there's some pessimism that a tax deal will get done.
Though Apple's profits remain the envy of the corporate world, a naysaying pessimism now surrounds everything it does.
It has been a lot of uncertainty and pessimism, but I don't think we're quite there just yet.
This indicates a steady slide toward pessimism rather than a dramatic drop-off caused by one particular event.
However, I also see couples retreat to pessimism to avoid conflict, vulnerability and the hard work of love.
But some executives thought that there was too much pessimism in the corridors of the Davos congress center.
"I don't think in terms of optimism or pessimism," says Spooner, a freelance writer and editor in Chicago.
Yet the fervor of her pessimism, like the extremity of her moderation, made her a forceful, imperious presence.
Dementors suck the life out of the room by imposing their negativity and pessimism upon everyone they encounter.
In 2016, Trump's pessimism on the economy rang true because it lined up with many people's lived experiences.
This enormous uncertainty leaves the Drake equation ultimately vulnerable to the optimism or pessimism of whoever wields it.
But the line between optimism and pessimism is a permeable one—beneath every Bedford Falls lurks a Pottersville.
Because of the loss of faith in progress downswingers have a baseline mood of pessimism, protest and anger.
This dilemma still pervades his art-as-object approach, dovetailing with what I see as commercial market pessimism.
That isn't normal, and it's an indication of more investor pessimism than economic and earnings data might suggest.
That pessimism lifted after the television arm of Paramount, which held the movie rights, was revived in 2013.
Mr. Cohen's pessimism shouldn't be wasted on the most successful, thriving and optimistic state in the Middle East.
Inevitability and objectivity, like pessimism and optimism, are the names of programs offering freedom from choice and responsibility.
The fine folks at Politico reported that the overarching feeling is pessimism about passing a health care bill.
Democratic pessimism today stands in contrast to the optimism that followed the elections of 2006, 2008 and 2012.
Major measures of consumer sentiment have dipped, with many consumers citing tariffs as a reason for their pessimism.
Shares in Hong Kong fell more than 2% on Tuesday, reflecting investor pessimism today about the local economy.
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However, a large majority of the survey's 1,800 respondents in Africa's most industrialized economy showed signs of pessimism.
But Fukuyama seems to have finally made a break from the profound cultural pessimism of the Straussian neocons.
The latest AAII Sentiment Survey published on Thursday placed pessimism among individual investors at a six-week high.
"This has given neuroscience a sense of pessimism that the brain is similarly a black box," she said.
"I think this sort of succession of events is feeding through to pessimism in the market," Okamura said.
What might be most surprising, in light of Silicon Valley pessimism, is that the jobs gap is growing.
This is a pessimistic view on the future, and yet, within this pessimism I believe there is hope.
" "All that trade optimism that's been building has been sucked out of the air and replaced with pessimism.
The Piedmont region of northwestern Italy was one such place where pessimism seemed to have the upper hand.
And the theme of the conference is "Optimism and Courage", so I'm titling my talk, "Pessimism and Cowardice".
Optimism and pessimism are both irrational, and based on assumptions that you can predict anything about the future.
The combination of those factors is fueling pessimism among some experts that the fiduciary regulation will become a reality.
Multiple times over the last decade, Christensen declared his pessimism about the prospects for Apple's products, including the iPhone.
There is something about market pessimism that endows bears with an aura of wisdom that is not always deserved.
It implicitly calls on us to do something, to contribute, to join the spreading wave, whereas pessimism is easier.
I've seen dozens of articles in the last few months expressing pessimism about the state of martech in 210.
Since the financial crisis, almost every change in the Fed's forecasts has been in the direction of greater pessimism.
Harwood: You hear a lot of pessimism these days about the state of our democracy and the political debate.
The responses from more than 4,000 global board directors come amid a wave of pessimism about the global economy.
The Republican message should be geared directly toward the discontent and pessimism that has taken over the middle class.
Dr. Doom said that markets had veered from undue optimism to exaggerated pessimism on the world's second biggest economy.
Despite the downturn, Beranger Guille, global editorial analytics director at Mergermarket, said the data was no reason for pessimism.
In 2010, the end of the Fed's first quantitative-easing programme prompted an outbreak of pessimism in financial markets.
At 26, he too has a knack for a descriptive turn of phrase and an artful sense of pessimism.
This combination of pessimism and pluck finds its most acute expression in Tattfoo Tan's New Earth Resiliency Training Module.
Everywhere there are local activists trying to rebuild, but it's hard to hold off the dislocation, distrust and pessimism.
The crowd is seldom right when they all agree, because the market price reflects everyone's collective optimism (or pessimism).
In 2016 that seems to have been turned on its head: America is shrouded in a most unAmerican pessimism.
Remarkably, this insight did not lead Herzen to pessimism, despite the blighting of so many of his political hopes.
Never is Mr. Vance more aware of this pessimism and estrangement than when he leaves for Ohio State University.
It's also possible to take this reasoning to an extreme—to become radically pessimistic about the consequences of pessimism.
"The pessimism on corporate earnings is palpable," Richard Turnill, chief investment strategist at BlackRock, wrote in a Tuesday report.
But my experiences generally keep that hope in check; it is hard to shake off the doubt and pessimism.
To your point, the prevailing view is that must be bad, and it's just part of the national pessimism.
His attempts at optimism are framed as counterintuitive, faring little better, in predictive terms, than his lapses into pessimism.
Without needing to work through Shakespeare's ornate language, one is especially struck by the work's pervasive cruelty and pessimism.
The survey also showed that sentiment about future output fell to a record low, pointing to pessimism among manufacturers.
Yet despite the pessimism — and possible nihilism — that Mr. Kosky highlights, there is plenty of humor, and even pathos.
Mr. Cohen's pessimism would likely come as a surprise to Israelis, who are healthier and wealthier than ever before.
It would be far more prudent to prepare for a scenario based not on optimism, but on realistic pessimism.
We're also served poorly by an occasionally reflexive pessimism bereft of adequate nuance or a sufficient sense of triage.
The pessimism among astronomers is due to the fact that they have no legal — national or international — protections here.
For all the pessimism, Obama officials are still hopeful that they can continue working with Tehran on specific issues.
So let's pause from our pessimism for a nanosecond of celebration about a world that is actually getting better.
His pessimism is intact, describing all relationships as doomed to sour and all life as a prelude to suicide.
These participants worry that such expectations are signs of a deep-rooted pessimism that could perpetuate sluggish economic growth.
The Duke survey, which also questions CFOs outside the United States, found that pessimism isn't just an American problem.
But when you talk to them, there is this pessimism about the party and the future of the party.
Ayers on Tuesday morning also expressed pessimism about the prospect of passing tax reform, the administration's top legislative priority.
"Most people thought it would be resolved but it has dragged on and the optimism turned to pessimism," said Meckler.
Pessimism actually increased in the American Association of Individual Investors' most recent sentiment survey, which measured the week ending Wednesday.
The current pessimism runs counter to last week's performance, which saw Wall Street take the edge off a bearish month.
"Counter to intuition, optimists were not immune to feeling a rise in pessimism at the moment of truth," Sweeny said.
BR: Where I have pessimism on this subject is people who don't like thinking about science, who reject it even.
Lim stressed that the Japanese bank's pessimism about equities did not mean a downgrade of "the country as a whole."
The big picture: A week that began with optimism about trade ended lower due, in part, to pessimism about trade.
I think there was a lot of pessimism coming into the earnings season, just because investors saw a negative number.
Their continued pessimism contrasts starkly with a more bullish attitude among analysts in the most recent poll by Thomson Reuters.
Reasons for pessimism: Nevertheless, a higher share of investors say the market is overvalued than at any point since 2000.
But the pessimism that abounds these days—as authoritarians have turned new technologies to their advantage—is likewise not decisive.
Over time it will come back, I just hope we don't all elongate that waiting period by overdoing the pessimism.
Companies were much less satisfied with their current situation and their pessimism about the coming months also increased, he added.
The graph indicates that neither income nor economic pessimism has a statistically significant impact on evaluations of Clinton versus Trump.
A good Singles Day could, theoretically, counter some of the investor pessimism surrounding the ongoing SEC investigations, an analyst said.
And we cannot let this pessimism, this dark and divisive and dangerous vision in America take hold in anybody's heart.
But once the dust settles and the unexpected result is digested, will the pessimism give way and risk appetite return?
Sentiment turned so negative in May and now, as stock rebound in June, we're seeing pessimism being replaced with optimism.
It can either disappoint them and risk adding to pessimism, or move rates much of the way back to zero.
He contrasted that belief in American ingenuity and decency with the pessimism and zero-sum fearfulness that Trump feeds on.
THE SENSE of pessimism that hung over the world economy early this year has begun to lift in recent weeks.
On Tuesday night, he had answers to audience questions from childhood trauma to pessimism around automation, and even e-sports.
Domestic consumption accounts for about 28 percent of Australia's gross domestic product, so pessimism among consumers is bad for growth.
Unlike most political candidates, he speaks off the cuff, simultaneously reflecting and stoking the anger and pessimism of his supporters.
But there is a clear sense now of pessimism over the likely returns from any more stimulus they may implement.
The strong gains erased the market's pessimism after figures showed China's factory-gate inflation slowed for a seventh straight month.
The general pessimism in the market and lowered expectations could set the U.S. up for a better-than-expected 2016.
"At least, both private consumption and investment are withstanding the growing pessimism quite well for the time being," Zeuner said.
Oil prices fluctuated between highs and lows on Thursday as pessimism over a global supply glut continued to impact sentiment.
This is the person who takes joy in using criticism and pessimism to suck the life out of a room.
Pessimism over Temer's chances to pass sweeping reforms has started to creep into Brazilian markets after months of strong gains.
Perhaps it's all to do with British pessimism and American optimism; Americans just assume the equity market will go up.
At that time, some unusual swings in the market for United States Treasury bonds stirred a wave of economic pessimism.
So what is behind the sudden outburst of pessimism about what would be the most spectacular diplomatic summit in decades?
I ask you to reject cynicism and pessimism, and push forward, in whatever you do, with an infectious, relentless optimism.
Stocks fell sharply on Wednesday as growing Wall Street pessimism pulled two major U.S. indexes in negative territory for 2900.
The theological roots of "positive thinking" show how the seeming polar extremes of pessimism and optimism work hand in hand.
Bitcoin valuation can be an indicator of many things, but perhaps chiefly of people's optimism or pessimism regarding the technology.
Besides calling the current state of our country "pretty saddening," Gillingham kept her answers to my questions free of pessimism.
All of them tap a deep and thickening vein of pessimism about the economic and political prospects of the West.
Despite its pessimism, the movie has helped define our own collective sense of what great urban environments should look like.
Their remarks begin as a discussion about IQ specifically, but drift into what sounds like pessimism about social policy generally.
In 1989, when East Germans' peaceful revolution toppled the wall, my melancholy pessimism of convenience was revealed as an illusion.
Yet as dire as their fate looks, some flowers bloom amid the gloom, taking the edge off the book's pessimism.
That pessimism was stronger among Democrats (73%) and independents (60%), while most Republicans said they were optimistic about it (52%).
And given that combination, I can see why you would read that as pessimism with a halfhearted nod to optimism.
Pessimism is also on the way to depression, which the American Heart Association considers a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) say an agreement is unlikely to happen before the deadline, with pessimism stretching across party lines.
The above few sections might inspire some pessimism, but there's plenty of reason to be excited about self-driving cars.
Perhaps the biggest risk of delay is that it fuels public pessimism and worry about Social Security's future, he said.
In the flip-flopping between trade talk pessimism and optimism, the latter was winning on Wall Street in midday trading.
He rightly notes that Lincoln's embrace of colonization reflected pessimism that blacks could ever enjoy equality in the United States.
Chinese leaders are taking increasingly bold steps to stop rising pessimism about turbulent markets and the slowing of the country's growth.
Still, the project's initial pessimism and closing uncertainty is balanced by a second act that, if not exactly resolute, is optimistic.
A shooting spree in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people were killed and similar number wounded only added to the pessimism.
Adding to the pessimism, President Donald Trump, in his State of the Union address, called reducing prescription drug prices a priority.
Debate about how to improve the world loses its purpose—because of Marx's certitude about progress, Rousseau's pessimism or Nietzsche's subjectivity.
I hope wrestling with Thomas's conservatism opens up a discussion across the country about where we think racial pessimism leads necessarily.
But "talk about default is senseless even examining these numbers with pessimism," said Federico Thomsen of Buenos Aires consultancy E.F. Thomsen.
Productivity pessimism remains the norm among official forecasters, but more academics are trying to understand how automation may affect the economy.
"The first step to change is good intentions," Vestager said, acknowledging Swisher's pessimism that Facebook will actually change for the better.
The yield on ten-year Treasuries fell by 0.7 percentage points, peak to trough, suggesting growing pessimism about long-term growth.
While is little scientific evidence that pessimism can be "treated," the worst thing to do is to not take any action.
This discomfort is especially likely if we are already rather short on self-esteem or prone to pessimism and low moods.
"That put-call ratio specifically [is] showing the most pessimism in the market since the November 2016 U.S. election," he added.
In the midst of the general pessimism, the fact the EU application process is moving forward offers a glimmer of hope.
In stark contrast to the pessimism of 2017, the summer of 1997 was characterised by genuine hope around England's national side.
While Faber has made a name on pessimism, he contended that bright spots for potential growth still exist in emerging markets.
Yet investor pessimism about the global growth outlook and political risks have receded, denting the appeal of safe-haven bond markets.
Despite all this hatred in our world, despite my pessimism, like many people, I think love is the end, despite everything.
Nor did his fallback pessimism or the women and faiths he engaged so readily and discarded so inevitably betoken true enlightenment.
Pessimism about GameStop grew after online movies and music drove video rental company Blockbuster and most record stores out of business.
"The reason for pessimism about practical applications is that we understand nature really, really well in some respects," Kaplan told me.
While there is much optimism around the future potential of self-driving cars, pessimism abounds around the timing of the transition.
There was little pessimism around technology companies, which had helped to power the CSI300 to a 1.3-percent gain on Monday.
Consumers may be sensitive to tariff-related news, but their pessimism has not affected their spending habits — at least, not yet.
Despite pessimism over how long the cease-fire would last, calm was widely reported after it took effect at 7 p.m.
As Eduardo Porter notes, this undermines Donald J. Trump's pessimism about the American economy, though it does not justify unbridled celebration.
That pessimism extends across party lines: 28500 percent of Democrats and 6900 percent of Republicans agree that tax reform is unlikely.
Your Monday bottom line: Republicans involved in this process shade more toward optimism than pessimism as they head into this week.
However, on balance, more overall respondents viewed U.S. trade policy as cause for pessimism than for optimism, according to the poll.
The CFO survey's pessimism about 22009 will raise eyebrows because mainstream economists are still projecting steady, albeit slower, growth next year.
They have also expressed increasing pessimism in states like Montana and West Virginia, even though Trump won them by wide margins.
That's why discussions of extraterrestrial civilizations, no matter how learned, have historically boiled down to mere expressions of hope or pessimism.
Business elites face rising pressures at home and abroad, and a mood of deep pessimism is spreading across the wider population.
" But Ms. Capito also said in an interview that in her economically depressed state, "there is a huge degree of pessimism.
"Most people thought it would be resolved but it has dragged on and the optimism has turned to pessimism," said Meckler.
Baird said pessimism on Model 3 demand is overblown, and that weak Q1 delivery expectations are already priced into the stock.
Growing pessimism among bankers, who were cutting exposure to the industry after the collapse of Carillion, hit Kier's share issue plan.
"There's a fair amount of pessimism about this among the people who tried to fight dengue and chikungunya," Dr. Frieden said.
One senses a fear, among Colbert and so many others, that pessimism is paralyzing; that it discourages the fight for change.
Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont, said pessimism in financial markets was strikingly at odds with the latest economic data.
Perhaps I am blinded by my own pessimism, but I do often wonder whether hope is a rational response to reality.
This post has been a whole lot of pessimism, so let me end by at least gesturing in a hopeful direction.
In December, a sharp sell-off in the stock market coincided with a rise in pessimism in surveys of business leaders.
The housing market has cooled, and a sense of pessimism colors conversations about the economy in Australia, especially among the young.
Sex is an impediment to any idealism, which is why the post-Weinstein era will be an era of gender pessimism.
Quixotic pessimism is thus marked by a refusal to let the odds of my success determine the value of my fight.
Pessimism is everywhere: in opinion polls, in rising suicide rates and falling birthrates, and in the downwardly mobile trajectory of millennials.
Pre-emptively tightening policy actually represents a deeper pessimism about an economy's room to expand before it runs into structural obstacles.
Your pessimism, DIY home workout videos, and extreme facial expressions will be missed — by the fraction of people who supported you.
"Graduation," Cristian Mungiu's nerve-racking and humane new film, provides plenty of visual and narrative evidence in support of Romeo's pessimism.
The Dow sank 313 points Tuesday on pessimism over the posturing ahead of U.S.-China trade talks set to resume Thursday.
Micron is down 5.5 percent in the last month, but Cramer attributes that drop to the market's pessimism about the company.
Pessimism about the global economy stands in contrast with more upbeat signals coming from financial markets, William Horobin of Bloomberg writes.
The recent police shootings of African-American men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and outside St. Paul, Minnesota, have increased his pessimism.
Sadly, it's his pessimism about an America driven by party, rather than his optimism about the Senate, that rings true today.
This burst of dystopian pessimism has a dim contrast in "I'm Not Racist," which is almost grotesquely earnest and naïvely optimistic.
The questions present an alternative to tech evangelism and extreme pessimism, but sometimes as a framing device they can feel didactic.
Trump World's pervasive pessimism about the state of America — shared by too much of the right —  is fully detached from reality.
Now, if you wanted to inject some pessimism here, you could point out the very real limitations of all these moves.
As part of that, a net 54 percent see China slowing down, which is the highest level of pessimism in two years.
The US Energy Information Administration on Tuesday lowered its 2019 forecast for global oil prices on fears about demand growth, boosting pessimism.
Spreadbetters expected the pessimism to carry over into Europe, forecasting a slightly lower open for Britain's FTSE, Germany's DAX and France's CAC.
Perhaps writing this on the heels of a week's staycation holiday has influenced my view and brushed off some of my pessimism.
Mr Warburton is the strongest casting, with a voice foreboding and deep enough to sound out Snicket's pessimism and undertones of conspiracy.
Making that assumption about the police would be a mistake, however, despite the deep pessimism about state authority incidents like these provoke.
Pessimism about the inflation goal notwithstanding, only 14 percent of firms want the Bank of Japan to go further with monetary easing.
To say there was pessimism about Snap's future would be overstating it, since few people still cared enough to consider an opinion.
Some observers have suggested that higher rates of chronic opioid prescriptions could be involved, along with whites' greater pessimism about their finances.
Trump's critics argue that his insistence that the election is rigged simply underscores the nominee's growing pessimism about his Election Day prospects.
It's an unfortunate reality that many of us non-whites peddle this pessimism for as long we've been disappointed by the Oscars.
The slide in oil futures comes amid increased pessimism for a production cap agreement following a meeting of oil producers in Algeria.
Overall, the two figures chimed with other data that show deep pessimism in British businesses about the outlook but resilience among consumers.
"When you see investors turning on the market's former leaders, that tends to spread doom and gloom and pessimism," the Cramer said.
Americans' expectations about our health care system are a cascade of pessimism, according to new survey data from West Health and Gallup.
I will apply, for the benefit of the humanity, all measures required, avoiding those twin traps of over-optimism and uniformed pessimism.
And the administration's earliest actions — marked by poor execution, willful ignorance of data and xenophobia — has done nothing to counter that pessimism.
Pessimism is easy, but this team also won 47 games last season, and a hobbled Leonard only appeared in nine of them.
Still a fear and pessimism permeated our street conversations and made me see how fearful people are of our country's changing demographics.
Trump's anti-trade rhetoric and his general attitude of economic pessimism seem to have resonated particularly strongly with voters in these states.
Baird said pessimism on Model 3 demand is overblown, and that weak first-quarter delivery expectations are already priced into the stock.
One danger is creating the impression that there's nothing we can do to improve society, or falsely equating pessimism with moral seriousness.
Sneakily, Mrs Clinton portrayed Mr Trump as simultaneously rash and clueless in his policy pronouncements, but consistent in his pessimism about America.
Kain is so driven by his desire to restore Nosgoth that he brushes aside his own inherent pessimism to build his empire.
And even these medium-size steps put the lie to the pessimism and fatalism one hears all too often on this subject.
Teams should know by now to be wary of Italians who come to the party wearing pessimism like a cloak of deception.
There's a long-standing strain of libertarianism and optimism, which is gradually being canceled by more powerful strains of progressivism and pessimism.
This proportion, the latest sign of the pessimism gripping world markets, is the highest since September 229, according to data from Tradeweb.
"We think there is a lot of pessimism priced into the pound," he said, predicting a move higher to $1.40 this year.
Pessimism is the act of being sad and thinking about that sadness, dwelling on it, and interpreting the world through that sadness.
The bottom line: Ma attributes the four companies' 2016 dealmaking to pessimism gripping the Chinese business community, otherwise known as capital flight.
Pessimism helps me adopt an indifferent stance when things feel overwhelmingly helpless, like a life-preserver in an endless steel-grey ocean.
To me, pessimism is interesting because it has something to do with the limits of thought, the limits of being human, really.
Analysts said that pessimism over a stronger yen may persist for a while, but more investors are gradually chasing the market higher.
Consumer pessimism over China's economy may be overstated, according to the China Beige Book, a quarterly survey of big businesses across China.
With a deepening mood of pessimism and fear in Washington, they may be hard-pressed to tackle additional contentious legislation this year.
Senators wrapped up their week on recess with an unexpected bout of pessimism over the prospects of passing a health care bill.
Both the trade headwinds and political crisis have fanned business pessimism, with confidence slumping to its lowest on record, the survey showed.
But when the market as a whole goes down, the sheer waves of optimism and pessimism are almost always playing a role.
The faux-literary language seems larded on to distract from the book's essential pessimism about power and conflict between men and women.
But this sense of gloom and pessimism has gotten ahead of the facts on the ground, especially concerning the United States economy.
To the Editor: I was appalled by the pessimism and fear described in "Puberty for the Middle-Aged" (Op-Ed, Nov. 20).
Where American photorealist painters offered a kitchen-sink realism reflecting Vietnam War-era pessimism, Mr. Gertsch's subjects are lighter and more glamorous.
The response to coronavirus resembles the inverse of a speculative mania, with fear replacing greed, and errors of pessimism those of optimism.
He said, 'Bull markets are born in pessimism, they grow in skepticism and they mature in optimism and they die in euphoria.
Therefore, Fed's pessimism of the inflation rate has once again reinforced the market's belief that Fed is taking on a dovish stance.
" Over time, he said these exercises can produce long-lasting results that "basically permanently change extreme pessimism into something much less pessimistic.
Few admitted disappointment in the outcome of the first two contests and a growing sense of pessimism about Ms. Warren's electoral prospects.
"It looks kind of like a pair of epidemics — two different outbreaks of a disease called pessimism or financial uncertainty," he said.
The currency of Africa's most industrialized economy has taken a hit from a stronger dollar and pessimism over the country's growth outlook.
Several major measures of consumer sentiment have dipped in recent weeks, with many consumers citing tariffs as a reason for their pessimism.
The pessimism is not limited to the United States, either, according to the report, which was produced by the Pew Research Center.
The ongoing wave of pessimism is "the worst I've seen in my 30 years of market career," he added, speaking in Portuguese.
If Ukraine's good weather fortunes are not enough to validate a larger wheat crop, perhaps the recurring pessimism of Ukrainian analysts is.
"Pessimism is spreading over every corner of this place," says Sameer Abu Mudallala, an economics professor at Al-Azhar University in Gaza.
Thornberry on Monday warned against such pessimism, as well as taking dollar amounts out of context from what military capabilities are needed.
And while earnings expectations were relatively stable in 2017, pessimism over Europe this year has led analysts to steadily downgrade their forecasts.
The figure below visualizes the relationship between respondents' level of economic pessimism and their feelings toward the candidates, from 0 to 100.
This exhibition offers no clear answers, just an opportunity to reflect on the balance of pessimism and optimism in your own outlook.
Pessimism about global growth have intensified, with 60 percent indicating that a slowdown in GDP gains is coming over the next 12 months.
That so many people in this country embraced pessimism, and that the country needs a political novice to reinvent America's greatness, is disturbing.
SECOND, IS IT, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE RUSHING OUT OF A RISK, IS IT A PANIC, IS IT – YOU KNOW – A PESSIMISM, OVERLY PESSIMISTIC?
The bar is high, that's for sure; but there are also a few reasons why the industry's pessimism is due a reality check.
Pessimism among retail investors is at the worst level in about 11½ years, according to the latest American Association of Individual Investors survey.
From the utopian counter-culture optimism of the 1960s to the pessimism of today's millenarian cyberdelia, psychedelics have profoundly shaped recent American history.
The caution on Tuesday added to investor pessimism that has brought semiconductor ETF SMH down nearly 24 percent from its all-time highs.
"If you're looking for shreds of pessimism in the current economy, you can find them here and there," especially in housing, Blinder said.
"There's a lot of pessimism seeping in," said Erick Erickson, a commentator close to the Cruz campaign and a leading anti-Trump voice.
A combination of buoyant demand and supply-side jitters is supporting prices of soybeans and corn after several years of glut-driven pessimism.
Pessimism about the outlook for crude prices was reflected by a similar collapse in sentiment towards middle distillates such as gasoil (tmsnrt.rs/2PtIemz).
Surely the truth is somewhere in between; surely any rational assessment of the future must include a mixture of both optimism and pessimism.
When GMOs were restricted by the Cartagena protocol, signed in 2000, he left the UN in protest at its pessimism and "technological intolerance".
But if policymakers do not decide soon to put growth ahead of their other goals, the next turn towards pessimism could be decisive.
Among emerging markets, India is one of the few exceptions with a stable outlook, while pessimism over Latin America's economic growth has grown.
Despite a decidedly mild downturn from late July to early August, the stock market has met all the pessimism with a convincing upturn.
The macro pessimism interacted with deteriorating technical signals as copper toyed with long-term chart support levels on both sides of the Atlantic.
That's decidedly better than the growth registered by the Obama presidency – as is Trump's optimism over the perpetual pessimism of the Obama administration.
That points to some pessimism about corporate performance in certain sectors, said Anup Srivastava, an accounting professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.
The same way that pessimism based on past experiences can snowball in a person's mind and color all experiences, so too can optimism.
And some 10-year euro zone bond yields edged lower, keeping recent lows within sight, in a sign that investor pessimism remains entrenched.
ZEW President Achim Wambach said the pessimism among German investors was probably driven by the continued slide in incoming orders for German industry.
"That assumes a pessimism about America, about the economy, about the people, about its culture that we're simply refusing to accept," Mulvaney said.
Fewer downbeat reports do not guarantee actual economic strength, but they help foster optimism or at least reduce pessimism among traders and investors.
Brown doesn't know if we've seen the bottom, but he thinks now is the time to buy given general pessimism in the markets.
"There seems to be reduced pessimism at least for the outlook for Deutsche," said Shaun Osborne, chief FX strategist, at Scotiabank in Toronto.
The typical American generally adopts a bifurcated view of their situation that does not comport well with the relentless pessimism of many leftists.
Others, among players and media, seem to think Carmelo's sudden pessimism is a bit much, and that a deal will get worked out.
Or will they believe Trump is driving policy, in which case they will go into negotiations with greater pessimism about finding common ground?
Certainly it is impossible to understand Ozick's pessimism, and its relevance to our current moment, without appreciating the essential Jewishness of her critique.
The Irish market's rally means that the pessimism about Brexit is going away, said O'Halloran, whose fund is up 12% since Aug. 11.
Many people viewed this fact as a reflection of the Democratic Party's pessimism toward the potential of the black electorate in the state.
"The Great Suppression," in turn, exposes the roots of that pessimism, enumerating conservative efforts to combat demographic changes by rolling back democracy itself.
In other words, there are grounds for optimism on the state of the world economy, matched by pessimism about how durable it is.
"Just as optimism fuels the and energy needed to accomplish goals, pessimism causes us to give up before we even try," McKee writes.
Such images represent a conscious effort on Mr. Marshall's part to rescue the image of black life from a default air of pessimism.
Still, these early efforts at least do something to fight against the impulse to fall into pessimism in these bleak, almost anarchic times.
Civic Engagement BRETT: The thing about pessimism is that it doesn't really leave much room for stuff like volunteering or going to meetings.
There seems to be growing pessimism about how well Apple's flagship iPhone X is selling, and questions about a potential rebound in China.
But elite pessimism about Cruz says more about the biases of media and Beltway insiders than it does about the Republican primary itself.
But it also made me realize that my desire not to reproduce stems from a deeply rooted pessimism about the future of humanity.
The title's "for now" pointedly conveys the show's twin strains of ecological optimism and pessimism, but its invocation of "poetry" is more mysterious.
For Democrats desperate to send Trump a stern message, the results were a tug-of-war between optimism and pessimism, contentment and disappointment.
He's clearly given a lot of thought to this strain of detective-gangster fiction, to its cruelty, extremity, pessimism and flashes of nihilism.
There is no easy way out of the Trump era, but there is a way forward, and it is not through hopeless pessimism.
The latest salvo comes amid growing fears of a global economic downturn and increasing pessimism about the prospects of striking a trade deal.
Pew Research reported in 2016 that roughly a third of white voters -- rural and suburban alike -- feel pessimism about their children's financial future.
It comes out of my personal optimistic pessimism or pessimistic optimism for Israel-Palestine, my true heartbreak over the peace process falling apart.
The experts behind the study say part of the reason for the pessimism in the industry is that hackers are getting more potent.
Pessimism in industry worsened to well below the long-term average, as the export-driven sector feels the impact of global trade wars.
Stocks have reacted wildly to reports on the trade talks, which have flip-flopped between pessimism and optimism over the past 17 months.
"Your response has to be to reject cynicism and reject pessimism and push forward, with a certain infectious and relentless optimism," he says.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.85 percent, its lowest level since 2016, in a sign of economic pessimism.
That pessimism continued into 24 and 25 as rivals like Samsung pushed forward with iPhone alternatives that had bigger screens and wild features.
Moritz attempted to explain what drove the record-setting pessimism by touching upon a handful of the biggest threats identified by CEOs worldwide.
The S&P 500 barely budged and yields on government bonds fell, suggesting slightly more pessimism on the outlook for growth and inflation.
But when central banks are obstinate in their lack of confidence, the world remains at their mercy if their pessimism becomes self-fulfilling.
There's no end in sight — but much of the pessimism was already priced in: Apple warned investors what to expect earlier this month.
But Cramer has noticed that analysts still seem hesitant to embrace the jewelry giant, so on Friday, he wanted to quash the pessimism.
FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith expressed extreme pessimism about the global economy on the delivery giant's post-earnings conference call with analysts.
And that means pessimism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy as we let our fears interfere with our motivation to prove them false.
Investors typically view falling bond yields as a sign of economic pessimism, because it points to higher demand for a safe haven asset.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.85 percent, its lowest level since 2016, in a sign of economic pessimism.
Dr. Steven Southwick, a psychiatry professor at Yale Medical School and Dr. Charney's co-author, notes that optimism, like pessimism, can be infectious.
"The Walking Dead" has evinced a bleak pessimism since its earliest episodes, but previous seasons have situated the misery in a meaningful context.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) trimmed its global growth forecasts and a survey showed increasing pessimism among business chiefs amid the trade tensions.
So I think Smil and other clean energy pessimists are, at the very least, wrong to be quite so confident in their pessimism.
What characterizes pessimism is the feeling that there is a dark future ahead and there is little one can do to avoid it.
Ukraine's dollar-denominated bonds tumbled to multi-month lows, reflecting pessimism about what a Trump presidency means for the divided and indebted country.
Politics, which has become synonymous with pessimism, made itself felt in less direct ways in other shows through the course of the year.
The very evidence Gordon cites for pessimism — persistent inequality, low productivity growth, lack of major innovations — can also be read as signs of opportunity.
Insofar as journalists and policy makers take it as a prediction (despite the IEA's protestations to the contrary), they will adopt an undue pessimism.
Smith acknowledged that there is some pessimism, but he blamed the U.S-China trade war and the government shutdown, now approaching its sixth week.
A bear market is when stocks see a 22018 percent decline or more from a recent high — but they're also marked by overall pessimism.
And the peculiar combination of pessimism and fervour that Mr Trump's supporters exude is similarly evident among many of his richer, better-educated fans.
" The key achievement of middle age, according to Jaques, is to move beyond youthful idealism to what he called "contemplative pessimism" and "constructive resignation.
When asked about the recent spike of pessimism among the fans, Todd Frazier, the team's veteran third baseman, laughed and then cautioned for patience.
The magnet was a little piece of the future, and its slow loss coincides with a period of pessimism that's much bigger than me.
Pessimism was the general theme in the wheat market as speculators were either cutting longs or extending shorts in the week ended May 16.
Against the backdrop of this pessimism, a film like I Am Human — a fundamentally optimistic documentary about neuroscience and brain medicine — feels surprisingly refreshing.
Priceline Group — Barclays upgraded the travel website operator's stock to "overweight" from "equal weight," saying current valuation reflects undue pessimism about the company's prospects.
Instead, they've turned his party into a swamp of nativism, ideological extremism and pessimism about the country's future, in direct opposition to Reagan's example.
Oil prices weakened amid pessimism over the U.S.-China talks and the prospect of slower economic growth globally that could reduce demand for crude.
ROBERT Friedland, the boss of Ivanhoe Mines, a large Canadian firm that digs out copper and zinc in Africa, is not one for pessimism.
However, this willingness to see the upside of difficult living conditions coexists with a deep pessimism about the future, and especially their children's future.
Despite second-quarter pessimism, some on Wall Street are clinging to hope that things could turn around for department stores in the second half.
"When you see investors turning on the market's former leaders, that tends to spread doom and gloom and pessimism," the "Mad Money " host said.
The picture being painted here and elsewhere is one of increasing pessimism regarding the NFL in recent years and this year was the bleakest.
Philip Klinkner, a political scientist at New York's Hamilton College, found that factors like economic pessimism and income were statistically insignificant to Trump's support.
In the early years, it was a lot, the idea — and I think this gets back to your optimism versus pessimism for these things.
So a lot of investor pessimism and skepticism surrounding the Chinese economy lately, whether it's a slowdown, the trade war, the government, different regulations.
For all the pessimism, there have been some glimmers of hope for the economy as financial markets fret growth is slowing down too quickly.
The recent pessimism has pushed many stocks to attractive prices, said Bill Smead, chief executive officer and chief investment officer at Smead Capital Management.
What we're hearing: House members are super-anxious about health care, and the pessimism levels are rising about getting a bill from the Senate.
"That doesn't mean that prices will spike up, but it is visible in the responses that the degree of pessimism is measured," said Rubinsohn.
"That assumes a pessimism about America, about the economy, about the people, about its culture that we're simply refusing to accept, " Mulvaney said Monday.
"I'm not surprised by the pessimism because if you look at the numbers the debt has been rising for a long time," said Holzer.
Optimism, not pessimism, about China appears to be on the rise, with most forecasters broadly looking for stabilisation across swathes of key economic indicators.
In another sign of pessimism, the U.S. dollar is on pace for its poorest year in a decade, down 7.2 percent year to date.
It's time for the left to realize that pessimism is an absolutely terrible selling point — and to downplay that aspect of left self-presentation.
Both pessimism and belief in conspiracy theories were associated with support for Mr Trump, even when we controlled for party identification, religion and demographics.
"When [pessimism] leads to depression, hopelessness, fatalism, and those feelings lead to giving up, we're likely to see negative effects on health," she explains.
"The pessimism around oil is misplaced," Aramco's chief technology officer, Ahmad Al Khowaiter, said in a recent interview at the company's headquarters in Dhahran.
The bank joined rivals Virgin Money Holdings Plc, OneSavings Bank Plc and Metro Bank Plc in defying Brexit-induced pessimism and reporting robust results.
Yet the film, as if obeying both the imperatives of Hollywood comedy and the long tradition of black activism, refuses to succumb to pessimism.
The middle classes, losing their social holding and social status, join the lower classes in nurturing a deep sense of social and economic pessimism.
And there has been a rise in pessimism, driven by groups such as retirees, blue collar workers and independents, including some core Trump supporters.
But pessimism just might convince enough people about the urgency of climate change, and encourage them to find the resolve to join the fight.
I have found happiness and contentment on the third attempt, and for me pessimism is not the key but rather openness and forgiveness are.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's dollar-denominated bonds tumbled to multi-month lows, reflecting pessimism about what a Trump presidency means for the divided and indebted country.
That suggests some of the pessimism that has driven down oil futures this month and boosted bets against a price rise may be unjustified.
It turns out, however, that we're seeing a significant revival of the "elasticity pessimism" widely prevalent during the post World War II "dollar shortage".
I would say we had an excess of optimism last year, excess of pessimism this year in most of the people I hear from.
It's hard to overstate how much worry and pessimism there was about this behind the scenes, even as other Trump controversies dominated public attention.
His new book, Infinite Resignation, is probably philosophy's only beach read; it's about pessimism and sketching out a hopeless philosophy for a hopeless world.
The book is in large part about pessimism and there are some things that I do identify with in the thinkers that I mentioned.
It's no surprise that something like this would come along, in which it turns out pessimism is actually kind of a more healthy attitude.
"At the end of the day, pessimism is not acceptable," Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University, said in a 2016 interview.
"A recession fundamentally is an outbreak of pessimism" that causes consumers and businesses to rein in spending, economist Jesse Edgerton of JPMorgan Chase says.
Philip Klinkner, a political scientist at New York's Hamilton College, found that factors like economic pessimism and income were statistically insignificant to Trump's rise.
The view from U.S. CFOs arguably is more important, and the telling result from this group is not extreme pessimism but lack of conviction.
Yet, despite these benefits, Obama admitted that something is wrong: People around the world are expressing profound pessimism about the direction things are going.
When the old station was demolished in the 1960s, it gave birth to a preservation movement "born of a new pessimism," Mr. Kimmelman wrote.
Analysts are worried that pessimism could result in slumping equities and rising corporate bond yields, which could lower consumer and business confidence and spending.
In this post, I will lay out my reasons for thinking so, in a veritable buffet of pessimism: short-term, midterm, and long-term.
Such pessimism, or call it excessive caution, appears to be the institutional bias of epidemiologists, just as finance types are prone to hyper-optimism.
In this darkened atmosphere, pessimism about the future of pluralism is rampant among religious conservatives, and the hope of persuasion and dialogue has dimmed.
That pessimism only increased this week, as prices for corporate debt from even the safest of borrowers fell and investors rushed to government debt.
Or, assess your degree of pessimism based on how strongly you identify with these statements: I hardly ever expect things to go my way.
This uncertainty naturally leads many towards despair, pessimism, and an assumption that the turmoil, disharmony, and infighting occurring in our country will only continue.
The activists who have spent years demanding that the police here change say they understand the pessimism, but refuse to give in to it.
"We are not a fragile people," President Obama insisted, in a beautiful speech as boundless in its optimism as Trump's was in its pessimism.
Pessimism reach an apogee, however, after the neonatal services company said health insurance giant UnitedHealth is canceling its contracts with Mednex in four states.
Pessimism around this week's U.S.-China trade talks in Washington and concerns about Brexit talks breaking down were winning the day in the markets.
Including responses from 1,581 officers spanning 83 territories, the report featured a jarring main takeaway: Pessimism about global economic growth is at a record.
"Oversold technicals -- combined with realistic earnings projects, reduced recession fears, and more pessimism -- are a recipe for a year-end rally," the report says.
Our writer and photographer traveled to Aleppo, Syria, where they found abject destruction, pessimism and blame, but also resilience and a determination to rebuild.
But he wants to try something different, rather than accept the reflex pessimism from those who will inevitably say that mentality can never change.
A movement characterized by anxiety and anger, by harsh language and hard edges, by defensiveness and undue pessimism isn't going to win many converts.
Some of the extreme pessimism in bond markets has also abated, lifting German 10-year yields more than 23 basis points off record lows.
Exhaustion, as always, induces a sort of pessimism, a feeling that we are living in terrible times, a sort of weariness of the soul.
When asked what OPEC would do if non-OPEC states decided not to join new, deeper cuts, Barkindo said: "I don't share your pessimism".
Despite my pessimism, what was difficult to imagine at the time was that the US would so quickly become the instigators of international instability.
"And then finally, we know that cognitive behavioral therapies are very effective treatments for depression; pessimism is on the road toward depression," Rozanski said.
Funds are expressing this renewed pessimism via short positioning on copper because of its exposure to global manufacturing activity, first and foremost Chinese activity.
Pessimism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy I certainly think publishing manifestos, videos, photos, and having endless analysis and discussion is encouraging [violent actors].
The pessimism has been exacerbated by data showing the world's largest economies — the United States, China, Japan and Germany — are all headed for slower growth.
The petroleum markets have seen an enormous shift from extreme pessimism at the end of June to fairly hearty bullishness at the start of August.
Separately, the European Commission reported British consumer confidence fell to a six-month low in June, hurt by pessimism about economic prospects ahead of Brexit.
It's a symbol of the deep pessimism in Washington that simply having two measures for the Senate to vote on counts as a bright spot.
Finally, if you still feel compelled to own Snap, don't let my pessimism stop you — I am subject to changing my mind in the future.
Despite broader pessimism about Apple's results, traders Karen Finerman and Pete Najarian, who both own Apple shares, said they would stick with the tech giant.
All the actors in the sketch, from guest Lindsay Lohan to vet Amy Poehler, fell victim to Debbie's laugh-inducing pessimism in this 2004 episode.
You see this pessimism in forecasts of medium-term inflation derived from the swaps market, which are markedly lower than they were earlier this year.
Additionally, the economy of top copper exporter Chile has been encumbered by falling investment, weakness in the key mining sector and consumer and business pessimism.
That's a metric that you either care about or don't, based largely on where you land on the pessimism-optimism spectrum, as our conversation implies.
Their report examines future scenarios, considering 18 global challenges from cutting child mortality to increasing financial inclusion, based on different degrees of optimism and pessimism.
"One of the key themes we've focused on is that there is misplaced macro pessimism," said Joseph Little, chief strategist at HSBC Global Asset Management.
"The pessimism priced into bond markets today may not necessarily presage downward pressure on inflation tomorrow at least not to the same extent," Coeure said.
GM Jim Benning has sent mixed signals, and there's plenty of pessimism in Vancouver that the Canucks will find a way to screw this up.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) trimmed its global growth forecasts and a survey this month showed pessimism increasing among business chiefs amid the trade tensions.
It felt familiar: the simultaneous optimism and pessimism — the contrast and tension between something being incredibly beautiful and moving, and painful at the same time.
Hence we need to look at this opportunity as the metal is trading on its own merit and is immune to Trump pessimism or optimism.
"If some terrible fit of pessimism were to hit the economy we might find ourselves in deep trouble, but we are not there," Fischer said.
Lack of representation Pessimism is on the rise as Americans are increasingly likely to say they do not feel represented by the government in Washington.
Measures of economic confidence have also taken a tumble, and surveys of business reveal a broad pessimism across firms as orders from abroad dry up.
His statements don't seem to be coming from an outlook of pessimism, but from the reality of someone who has had to overcome a lot.
It's music to quietly waffle between pessimism and optimism, not sure which one feels right, as if there's ever a right way to feel anyway.
Pessimism: Despite these new technologies and innovations, food distribution is still ineffective, with many populations without reliable access to a nutritious, affordable supply of food.
"Dividend growth pessimism is evident in the valuation of high dividend yield stocks," Goldman chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin said in a note Friday.
"What we've seen is that when things get very dark and the pessimism goes up considerably, that's when you have your opportunity," he said Tuesday.
"These results are tough to report, but we can't let this growing pessimism become a self-fulfilling prophecy," Bay Area Council President Jim Wunderman said.
There seems to be more pessimism than optimism in your telling The Wall Street Journal that "lying" is the word that best describes the Capitol.
It's at best a very early warning indicator, but if this pattern persists, the US public may be entering a new era of economic pessimism.
Members of the administration have consistently maintained the fundamentals of the economy remain strong, and there's no reason for pessimism heading into the new year.
Whereas most One Great Idea books tend to present gloomy, Puritan-like sermons about how far we have fallen, this one shook up such pessimism.
According to our finding, even if you grant that level of pessimism, a trillion civilizations still would have appeared over the course of cosmic history.
Rather than exchanging romantic ideals for pessimism, couples who flourish seem to integrate these ideals with their changing reality in more complex and nuanced ways.
He cites the "recycling of headlines" and a yield curve that was inverted for "10 minutes" as reasons that pessimism in the marketplace is omnipresent.
I'd lean slightly towards cautious pessimism, but it's not as black and white as it appears, especially if he stays healthy for the foreseeable future.
In my best moments, the ones where the pessimism gets overwritten by hope, I think that games might give us the tools to save ourselves.
Analysis of surveys has shown consistently that racial resentment correlates more strongly with Trump support than one's income or degree or pessimism about the economy.
"The pessimism priced into bond markets today may not necessarily presage downward pressure on inflation tomorrow – at least not to the same extent," Coeure said.
The International Monetary Fund trimmed its growth forecasts on the eve of this year's Davos meeting, while a survey showed increasing pessimism among business chiefs.
AI advances can sometimes be overhyped and can yield emotion that isn't merited by the actual situation — either too much optimism or too much pessimism.
A bear market is considered to be a general decline in stock prices that is driven in part by investor pessimism and financial market troubles.
While Mr. Lupa writes in the playbill that he avoided Kafka for a long time because of his "pessimism," he now appears to embrace it.
But if the techno-optimism that infused the 1990s and 2000s now looks naive, the techno-pessimism that is fashionable today can be similarly overdone.
Pessimism among German investors slumped in March to levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis on the coronavirus outbreak, a survey showed on Tuesday.
That pessimism, they note, is a view shared not just by hard-liners but also by most of the Israeli political establishment, left and right.
"Such extreme pessimism occurred back in 2003 during the SARS outbreak, though it did not cause a significant reduction in oil demand," the minister said.
BofAML's own strategists believe the market has exhausted its gains for the year, in large part because of earnings pessimism and tightening central bank policies.
The finger pointing, name calling and polarization apparent daily on social media and cable news has produced a fog of pessimism across the nation's populace.
"Such extreme pessimism occurred back in 2003 during the SARS outbreak though it did not cause a significant reduction in oil demand," Prince Abdulaziz said.
Structural problems — exacerbated by public policies of the past several years and a stimulus mind-set — have fed pessimism, restraining investment in capital and people.
Both lines of thinking look at our technological, social and political acceleration with an extreme but appealingly simple pessimism: Whatever this is, it ends badly.
Where I had once interpreted Olivier's reticence as pessimism, I now saw the deep romanticism, the hopefulness, of not wanting to overstate or to overpromise.
Adding to the money troubles, the fear of being the last bearers of a fading culture has instilled pessimism in many young Sami, said Ophaug.
"The market seems to veer back and forth between irrational exuberance and undue pessimism," said LeBlanc, who will moderate a panel of frackers at CERAWeek.
The retirement of six House Republicans from Texas at the end of this term shows a pessimism about winning back the House majority in 2020.
Interestingly, support for Rubio falls as economic pessimism rises among all Republican groups except for millennials, suggesting his attempts at positive messaging failed to connect.
Another caveat is that economic pessimism appears to explain how Democrats feel about their candidates more than it explains how Republicans feel about their candidates.
But his pessimism could be weathered, in part, due to the fact that he is likely to receive a hefty paycheck throughout the restructuring process.
His conscientious pessimism, particularly prominent in Climate Change: Part One but evident in his entire oeuvre, suggests his sensationalist despair is sincere rather than cynical.
The deep pessimism on Russian markets mirrored falls in Asian and European stocks, as well as declines in emerging-market currencies such as the Turkish lira.
But the reality is, what we see is a degree of pessimism, but it's actually got to be looked at from a company by company perspective.
Inversions, in which short-term rates rise higher than those for long-term securities, are taken as a signal of market pessimism, and typically precede recessions.
Stocks have been volatile over the past two weeks, though the pessimism may not have reached a point yet to turn the latest market selling around.
In a research note over the weekend, Goldman Sachs declared that the U.S. economic glass was "half full," pointing to pessimism that was overshadowing encouraging fundamentals.
The poor output data increased pessimism about the bloc's growth, which seems now more likely to remain slow in the last three months of last year.
Current pessimism and future optimism That's not to say that Kenyans, Nigerians and South Africans are optimistic about the current economic situation in their respective nations.
Amid this feeling of distrust and pessimism, 76 percent of respondents said that CEOs should lead change rather than waiting for the government to impose it.
But at least in the first two episodes, they appear to be the Luddite villains, as misguided in their pessimism as Paul is in his optimism.
His pessimism is somehow the opposite of despair, and while the ringing affirmation of his film's title is obviously sarcastic, "Aferim!" is neither mocking nor mean.
In that regard, the rally in oil and emerging market currencies last week could well be a sign that the pessimism of late has been overdone.
On the Republican side, there is much more pessimism, as the candidates in debates generally describe a grim world that requires desperate — and sometimes draconian — policies.
There's been a shift on Wall Street from "extreme pessimism to possible optimism," said Zell, who refused to say whether or not he voted for Trump.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese households' inflation expectations improved and pessimism about current economic conditions eased slightly, a quarterly survey from the Bank of Japan showed on Friday.
Far too much pessimism is priced into Mexican equities at these levels, Larry McDonald, editor of The Bear Traps Report newsletter wrote in a recent note.
But on Crashing, even when Pete finds his wife Jess (Lauren Lapkus) sweating off a heated round of sex with another man, he doesn't embrace pessimism.
He said "short-term pessimism" and "weakness" should be seen as "a buying opportunity" to add riskier assets, as people panic and reduce their risk exposure.
While these kids are depicted with some interiority and callow joy and pessimism, Miller keeps listening to his mom and hounding Russell Hammond for an interview.
Oil prices initially fell in the previous session on pessimism that OPEC members and other major crude producers will reach an output freeze deal during Sept.
When compared to earlier tests run using human volunteers, the data matched up: Humans demonstrated the same tendencies towards pessimism or optimism as their machine counterparts.
The justice ministry counters such pessimism by pointing out that the legal-aid system in England and Wales is still one of the world's most generous.
By contrast, Microsoft's results were fairly humdrum, with a number of reasons for pessimism, but analysts cheered them anyway because they weren't as bad as expected.
If you look at the wide variety of polling, it is clear to see that a large factor contributing to voters pessimism are shaky economic prospects.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Pessimism reigns supreme at the annual gathering in the Swiss Alps thanks to trade wars, the U.S. government shutdown and rising populism.
"Short-term pessimism misses the point that it [regulation] could make the ecosystem thrive in the long term," said Charles Hayter, founder of London-based Cryptocompare.
Answering other questions at the town hall meeting, Obama urged the students to "reject pessimism and cynicism" and take a longer, more optimistic view on history.
"One of the big problems that gold is facing is that it is trying to battle a mountain of pessimism," ETF Securities analyst Nitesh Shah said.
"Italy is currently the focus of the economic pessimism in the euro zone, so any miss in the services sector PMIs could hurt BTPs," he said.
" The study's authors conclude, "Assessing optimism and pessimism as separate entities improves the prognostic values of the connection between these personality traits and coronary heart disease.
Julie Norem, a psychology professor at Wellesley College who studies optimism and pessimism, says that being a pessimist isn't necessarily a bad thing for most people.
TOKYO, July 2108.6500 (Reuters) - * Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) rubber futures slid on Monday, tracking losses in Shanghai futures and amid pessimism over U.S.-Sino trade negotiations.
The two later joked that they were too old to accept the pessimism because they had seen strong demand at double these rates in their lives.
Pessimism about the state's direction is the worst since two months before Mr. Christie took office in January 2010, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton poll.
Asked if he was surprised that the deal had come together after so much pessimism around his contract situation, Wilkerson said he preferred to look forward.
And while that degree of negativity is unusually pronounced, a general pessimism about America has persisted for well over a decade, paving the way for Trump.
In " It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear ," the journalist Gregg Easterbrook offers a wider-ranging account of our pessimism.
An important point is that not one of the people I mention, like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, ever use the term pessimism to describe what they're doing.
Adding to the gloom, the International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecasts and a survey showed increasing pessimism among business chiefs as trade tensions loomed.
The other most-active contracts - for delivery in October and January 23 - have also each fallen around 15 percent this month, signaling growing long-term pessimism.
Indeed, despite the pessimism that is so deeply embedded into its outlook, there is something darkly romantic about the way it depicts Los Angeles's urban future.
Sources close to the talks suggest there is a creeping feeling of pessimism going into the new round of negotiations because of gridlock on critical matters.
The current wave of pessimism is a reminder that there's a recurring tendency on the part of intellectuals to abandon democracy when it veers off course.
Two-year German bond yields also hit six-month lows, falling to almost -0.90% - a sign investors now price in extreme pessimism on euro zone growth.
This sense of pessimism about Christianity's relationship to liberalism, the fear that fragmentation may be irreversible and mutual incomprehension inevitable, are feelings that I often share.
That marks the first time since President Trump took office that the level of economic optimism in the poll has fallen below that of economic pessimism.
This and many of the demands from the blockading countries are seen as impossibly broad, leading to widespread pessimism that the standoff will end anytime soon.
If there's one thing the 21st century needs, it's more memory of the bad old days — and fewer amnesiacs spreading performative pessimism all over social media. 
And probably the reason they were destocking is there was a lot of pessimism over the last number of months about, you know, future growth prospects.
And while pessimism around tech hubs may be increasing, the jobs gap is continuing to widen, making the richest and most productive cities even more so.
Such a bad attitude would make me vulnerable to the all-too-common view that pessimism breeds disease and that I deserve the cancer I dread.
Positioning in the U.S. dollar reflects investors' pessimism about the ability of the Trump administration to make progress on its legislative agenda, particularly on tax reform.
There's a luxury to letting ourselves be overwhelmed with the pessimism and the dread, but the mind has capacity to play all kinds of beautiful tricks.
One of the unexpected consequences of Donald Trump's angry pessimism is that it has forced the GOP to cede some of its strongest themes to Democrats.
Appearance: Western Wear Personality: Nihilistic Earth sign Virgo is known for being an analytical over-thinker, which can easily spiral into a constant, low-grade pessimism.
Ronald Wan, a Hong Kong money manager who is on the boards of numerous state-owned enterprises in mainland China, said that pessimism was becoming the consensus.
But the fact that officials are now calling on localities for yet more support, using a playbook they have been trying to put down, suggests deepening pessimism.
Despite the pessimism over where the market is heading, the collective portfolio allocation to stocks is expected to dip only slightly — from 265 percent to 256 percent.
Despite the corporate pessimism, Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC earlier Wednesday that he expects GDP growth to exceed 3 percent next year.
His bleak, defensive and atypically American vision of pessimism and defeatism was a de facto abdication of America's erstwhile role as undisputed global leader on economic issues.
Burst them, he argues in this book, and our general pessimism about the state of the world will also ease — things are much better than they seem.
Research published this week showed that levels of support for membership of the European Union are high – but so is pessimism about the future of the bloc.
It may wane as interest rates fall, leaving central banks less room to jolt economies out of their pessimism, and as government policymakers fumble their fiscal tools.
Roth's pessimism about the prospect of national redemption should be instructive to critics of President Donald Trump's policy of caging migrant children in isolation from their parents.
U.S. two-year Treasury yields managed to rise away from 15-month lows hit on Wednesday as strong U.S. homebuilding numbers helped reverse some of the pessimism.
What they're saying: There are more reasons for pessimism about the reef's future than optimism, scientists tell Axios, but all is not lost, at least not yet.
Surprisingly strong New Zealand employment figures this week tempered some of the pessimism though leading indicators suggest growth will remain under pressure as businesses face tough times.
Surprisingly-strong New Zealand employment figures this week tempered some of the pessimism, though leading indicators suggest growth will remain under pressure as businesses face tough times.
The pessimism is reflected in Apple's stock price, which closed at $99.44 Monday, down $2.01 in the day's trading and well off its yearly high of $63.
That meant Dell would be beholden to the whims of public markets, perhaps laden with short-term pessimism over the company's urgent need to find a transition.
This would be consistent with our view that there is excessive pessimism about the risk of recession in light of accelerating payroll growth in the fourth quarter.
Not everyone shares the trader's pessimism, however, with analysts from Jefferies in a recent research piece acknowledging the difficulties ahead for banks but articulating more bright spots.
"The optimism or pessimism choice is a forced choice; it's a faulty assumption," says Dr. Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and the forthcoming book Altered Traits.
In mid-December, one week before the Christmas Eve collapse and subsequent rebound, she told Cramer that pessimism was peaking and stocks were due for a bounce.
The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, after spending hours trying to defend President Donald Trump, closed his panel's hearing on a note of bipartisan pessimism.
The talk of a freeze has certainly shifted sentiment in the oil market away from abject pessimism, and it could end up being the bridge to stabilization.
"Markets tend to be manic depressive, going from excessive optimism to excessive pessimism," he said at a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Retailers weighed on the index for a second day after a week of downbeat results from Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's confirmed investors' widespread pessimism on the sector.
"The unwind of the initial (post-Brexit) pessimism has seen 10-year Bund yields bounce off their extreme lows," said Benjamin Schroeder, a rates strategist at ING.
As long as the end of a boom in one sector does not engender self-fulfilling pessimism in the rest of economy, the show should go on.
"The prevailing pessimism since the global financial crisis, which fostered colorful language such as 'secular stagnation' and 'low-growth trap,' is clearly on the wane," he said.
The show boasts a Stephen King-esque pessimism in its approach to childhood, not to mention a monster that feels far more menacing than Stranger Things' Demogorgon.
Oil prices initially fell on pessimism that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other major crude producers will reach an output freeze deal at Sept.
Just like Unicornism was a herd, and the up market in late-stage funding was a herd, as pessimism grabs hold, it too will become a herd.
There is simply too much at stake – for future generations of Israelis and Palestinians – to give in to pessimism, especially when peace is, in fact, still possible.
Eugene Thacker, a philosopher at the New School, can look to the enrollment numbers in his course on pessimism, which have increased over the past few semesters.
It is harder during more normal times like these, when the economy is merely chugging along, with conflicting signs of optimism and pessimism almost anywhere you look.
Lillard deserves the bulk of the credit for this, and perhaps the most astounding thing about him this series has been the absence of pessimism or inferiority.
"According to our finding, even if you grant that level of pessimism, a trillion civilizations still would have appeared over the course of cosmic history," he says.
Other researchers have found something like pessimism in bees, something like anxiety in crayfish, and a defensive state that bears some relation to fear in fruit flies.
European markets ended lower to edge into negative territory on Tuesday afternoon, amid uncertainty and pessimism over the outcome of trade talks between the U.S. and China.
"Some of the pessimism we started the month off with has eased slightly," said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Independent Advisor Alliance, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A global population peaking at 295 billion need not be an apocalypse or cause for pessimism, but it does pose challenges that we'll need to rise to.
But there are younger generations now, people who are fed up with German angst and pessimism and in utter need of 21st-century political leadership and debate.
In a reflection of Wall Street's pessimism, its stock has fallen more than 30 percent this year, to below $9, its lowest point in nearly a decade.
When they first met, they shared an admiration for the philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer, who saw a world governed by the insatiable striving of the will.
That is a notable improvement on how the citizenry felt for the bulk of the Obama presidency, as pessimism persisted in the wake of the Great Recession.
Ned Davis Research tracks a composite of trader-sentiment indicators, which this month fell to the "extreme pessimism" zone where stocks' risk-reward prospects tend to improve.
President Donald Trump called the failure of Congress to repeal Obamacare "disgusting" on Monday — and expressed deep pessimism that a latch-ditch Republican repeal effort will succeed.
However, the trend against industrials and materials reflects pessimism that key tenets of the president's agenda — tax reform and an infrastructure rebuild — will come to fruition soon.
McConnell's comments come as several GOP senators are signaling growing pessimism about the chances of clearing an ObamaCare repeal and replacement bill through the upper chamber.  Sen.
Kier has said the growing pessimism among bankers, who were cutting their exposure to the industry after the collapse of rival Carillion, hit its share issue plan.
Already, pessimism had been growing on both sides of the Pacific Ocean about the possibility of a trade deal before the United States presidential elections next year.
And exactly when the next inevitable bear market will arrive — typically signified by a market drop of more than 20 percent and sustained pessimism — is anyone's guess.
Strong economic growth and record earnings have given the bulls energy, while expected higher interest rates and a steep momentum rally has given bears reason for pessimism.
But recent data have suggested the economy and housing market remains upbeat and results last week from Barclays Plc and Lloyds Banking Group have defied the pessimism.
I think that versions of pessimism are also American, but I do feel like people have to be optimistic because ... I have something to say about this.
It's threaded with pessimism about not just a self-dealing crook in the Oval Office but about the uniquely American institutions and attitudes that got him there.
"The headlines coming out of Davos are rehashing some of the pessimism," said Matthew Keator, partner in the Keator Group, a wealth management firm in Lenox, Massachusetts.
The housing market is stagnating, services companies have reported crisis-like pessimism and lending to British consumers grew in November at its slowest pace in nearly four years.
Heather: One of the sources for both my optimism and my pessimism is that the adjustment that has to happen to our polity this time is so great.
Not the piscine pessimism part, just the idea that some little fishies want love and will go through the trouble of being sad if they don't get it.
"The pessimism among investors is largely based on perception that potential iPhone 7 buyers are holding out for the 10th anniversary device in Sept (iPhone X)," Olson wrote.
Afghan officials are keen to reassure the returnees that they have a future in the country, even though pessimism abounds about the deteriorating war and a slumping economy.
STEVE LIESMAN: John, it sounds to me the way you lay out and talk about the economy, you think the market has overdone here it on the pessimism.
The researchers find that this new pessimism has been decisive in shifting both some previous Leave voters, and most of those who abstained in June 2016, towards Remain.
In this age, the digital world can offer vital support networks, voices of solidarity, refuge, escape… That's what 'Cyber Stockholm Syndrome' is about: pessimism, optimism, anxiety, and freedom.
"In order for the market to bottom, there probably has to be more consternation and more pessimism about the current environment," said Mr. Clissold, of Ned Davis Research.
Soybean pessimism has grown in the days since and fund managers could be even shorter at the end of this week barring drastic events on Monday or Tuesday.
The market goes up (like on November 28) and goes down (like on Wednesday) according to its optimism or pessimism about whether the Fed will stop raising rates.
Secondary characters like Mr. Peanut Butter and Princess Carolyn — who initially served as counterpoints to BoJack's pessimism and immaturity, respectively — become deeply flawed characters in their own right.
"It may be that the market was a little bit oversold, a little bit too much pessimism, so bargain hunters came in to buy some shares," Carey said.
Now, signs that Germany may finally be prepared to accept higher spending to boost its economy means investors are starting to question whether entrenched market pessimism is justified.
Crude prices and spreads are being propelled higher by an almost perfect storm of increasing economic optimism (or at least reducing pessimism), OPEC cuts and unplanned supply disruptions.
That is still a notable improvement on how the citizenry felt for the bulk of the Obama presidency, as pessimism persisted in the wake of the Great Recession.
But the extreme pessimism across the entire petroleum complex is raising the risk of a reversal and future rise in prices (just as it did in January 2016).
And On the Beach, which turns 45 this week, managed to transcend that pessimism, and lives on as a not-so-cult favorite among critics and fans alike.
Rieff begins with a cynical wisdom that may prove too much, and he constantly returns to it, showing how deep a streak of pessimism runs in his thinking.
The IHS Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) also showed deepening pessimism across the sector which saw output grow by the smallest amount since July 2016.
Hence, Apple's record-breaking results were met with indifference, while its March quarter guidance further hit a stock that already had a fair amount of pessimism baked in.
Several Republican senators expressed pessimism during last week's recess that Senate lawmakers could bridge their differences to get to the 50 votes needed to pass a bill. Sen.
The GfK survey showed pessimism about the economy's prospects in the next 12 months rose to the highest level since April 2012, when Britain last flirted with recession.
Luxenberg said he thinks job hopping is more common among young people partly because the Great Recession led to pessimism about the ease of climbing the corporate ladder.
Those who said they would vote for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, scored lower than Mrs Clinton's supporters in belief in conspiracy theories, pessimism and Christian fundamentalism.
"The March report is another rebuke to the Wall Street pessimism about an imminent downturn," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist and president of the American Action Forum.
But that long-warranted pessimism is being replaced by fresh confidence that change is within our reach, thanks in part to politicians talking about solutions to this problem.
"I think it only made me want to try harder to separate my feelings about growing older and weaker from pessimism about the world in general," she said.
"The short term outlook for the rand remains unfavourable as long as political noise continues to dominate headlines and drive pessimism," said economist at ETM analytics Halen Bothma.
But still, while 6900 will likely feature increased trade protectionism, October's 2628-percent market correction and Tuesday's combined decline in stocks and Treasury yields reveals excessive growth pessimism.
How to communicate ongoing monetary policy normalization in the face of a strong but cooling economy without communicating excessive growth and recession pessimism will be the key challenge.
Adding to the air of caution, the International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecasts and a survey showed increasing pessimism among business chiefs as trade tensions loomed.
The best thing upswingers can do in these times is to respect the downswinger critique — we're in this moment for a reason — without falling for its ultimate pessimism.
Pessimism levels shot up by 20193 percentage points to about 21% — respondents felt less optimistic about the outlook for 2019 due in part to a slowing domestic economy.

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