We're optimists.

The optimists believe so.

Where are Europe u0027s Optimists?

Perhaps these optimists are right.

Tom and Mary are optimists.

The optimists say not to worry.

Optimists say that technology will solve the problem.

Here, the political divide could be defined as optimists versus pessimists.

Others, like Pablo Ventoso ( blito_amargo) , are not optimists about Obama's trip

In fact, both the critics fears and the optimists euphoria are unwarranted.

Optimists argue that the global economy has merely hit a soft patch.

For optimists, Turkey s growing regional influence enhances its value for the EU.

BELFAST The French say that optimists are those who don t understand a question.

This is very worrisome for us, for the people who are optimists like me.

But even optimists don t believe that real estate prices will increase substantially any time soon.

The optimists back their claims of an earlier recovery by pointing to a variety of statistics.

But we realistic optimists are no longer holding our breath we may be disappointed, once again.

Optimists counter that China and Japan can cooperate, acting as the dual engines of Asian development.

Optimists, touting GDP and other indicators, will continue to insist that Americans have never had it so good.

And sometimes it is simply a long run of good fortune, which leaves the market dominated by unrealistic optimists.

What the optimists forget is that the 1950 s and 1960 s were also a period of massive insecurity.

New York As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing green sprouts of recovery from the financial crisis and recession.

For years, as optimists see it, China has been the world s cheap assembly shop for shoes, clothing, and microwave ovens.

Optimists predict a recession of the second type pessimists suspect that a third variety recession is lurking in the economic shadows.

BELFAST The French say that optimists are those who don t understand a question. This week s events in Northern Ireland contradict such cynicism.

As too many optimists have learned to their detriment, asset prices are highly volatile, and a whole ocean of phishes is involved.

But, just as optimists were too sanguine in the boom, ultra pessimists probably go too far in forecasting a depression around the corner.

Optimists hope that this might hasten economic liberalization, and perhaps even lead to moderate political reform, especially greater accountability for far flung local officials.

But the optimists have proved to be misguided, as the world s powers, great and small, drew their own, often conflicting, lessons from the past.

For optimists, what matters is believing in and nurturing the instinct of cooperation in the hope, and expectation, that decent human values will ultimately prevail.

Since 2000, when PLO leader Yasir Arafat rejected a political settlement and instead launched a five year war of terrorism, there have been few optimists left.

When Obama entered office in January 2009 and offered to extend a hand to Bush s rogue states, optimists hoped for the negotiated denuclearization of North Korea.

Optimists are proclaiming that variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD), the human form always fatal of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease, is on the wane.

Optimists argue that the potential for rapid growth remains immense, owing to better macroeconomic fundamentals and the promise of best practice technology spreading throughout the emerging world.

While in the US context cyber pessimists seem to be more vocal than cyber optimists, the situation is Russia is reversed, at least for the time being.

When Hong Kong was formally handed back to China 17 years ago, some optimists thought that the former colony s greater freedoms would help to reform the rest of China.

Optimists point out that China has engaged in good neighbor policies since the 1990 s, settled border disputes, played a greater role in international institutions, and recognized the benefits of using soft power.

Optimists beware the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the freezing of his shares in oil giant Yukos will have a profound long term impact on Russia's economy and on relations between business and government.

For years, as optimists see it, China has been the world s cheap assembly shop for shoes, clothing, and microwave ovens. Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology intensive industries.

Optimists cheer the departure of the Bush administration and assume that the arrival of the Obama presidency, which unlike its predecessor is not in denial about the science of global warming, will unlock the prospect of a deal.

How long this boom in productivity growth will continue is anyone's guess optimists point to the fact that waiting behind the information technology revolution, ready for takeoff, is the biotechnology revolution, and behind that is a looming nanotechnology revolution.

But I argued that this was irrelevant making up the states' shortfall would cost the government nothing if the optimists turned out to be right, but it would be just the right medicine if pessimists like me were correct.

Optimists counter that China and Japan can cooperate, acting as the dual engines of Asian development. Japan expert Feng Zhaokui takes the middle ground, arguing that Sino Japanese relations will be marked by the coexistence of both cooperation and conflict.

But I argued that this was irrelevant making up the states' shortfall would cost the government nothing if the optimists turned out to be right, but it would be just the right medicine if pessimists like me were correct. Instead, the Bush administration pushed ahead with tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts that were not designed to stimulate the economy and that, no surprise, have failed to stimulate the economy.

Optimists argue that the short run macroeconomic impact of the deal to raise America s debt ceiling and prevent sovereign default will be limited roughly 25 billion in expenditure cuts in the coming year. But the payroll tax cut (which put more than 100 billion into the pockets of ordinary Americans) was not renewed, and surely business, anticipating the contractionary effects down the line, will be even more reluctant to lend.