Word: bullish
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...have heeded his warnings about the turmoil that lay ahead. While most of us were lulled by the financial stability and heady growth that preceded the recent meltdown, Weiss, who is also professor emeritus of economics at Boston University, was a prescient doomsayer. In 2005, when everyone else was bullish, he wrote to his shareholders that global markets looked "very treacherous" and warned about rampant borrowing "to speculate in real estate." In 2006, he derided the notion that "business cycles have been banished" and spoke of the danger of "extreme events in which the entire financial system experiences distress...
...Obama advisers remain bullish on Biden's assets. They point to the largely favorable local media coverage he has earned, his indispensable capacity to appeal to the white working-class voters not fully sold on Obama, and the reassurance his 3 1/2 decades of Washington experience has brought to a Democratic ticket headed by a first-term Senator. (Click here for Joe Biden's defining moments...
...limited E.U. response was partly due to splits amongst the leaders. Britain and most of the new E.U. members from the east wanted tough sanctions to punish Moscow. However, even the most bullish amongst them recognized the limited impact of possible measures like blocking Russia's plans to join the World Trade Organization, or throwing...
...undeniably "having an impact," agrees Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer who represents Russia's most famous economic victim: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once headed the Yukos oil company. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was hounded out of business and he now languishes in a Siberian jail. "People who were among the most bullish on Russia are now ready to be the most aggressive in demonizing it," says Amsterdam...
Still, despite the risks, there's scarcely a bear in sight in the bullish market of English and European football. Which is why, when the Premier League kicks off three weeks from now, returning fans - who routinely cheer on their favorite players in song - will find themselves forced to retire some of last season's tunes and hastily pen some new ones. And nobody ought to be singing louder than the teams' accountants...