The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
I'm not pessimistic about anything.
I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.
People don't like to follow pessimists.
I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.
People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.
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