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Waters said he expects the concert to sell out, but he added. "I'm a bleeding optimist...
...with Penner's warning that the deficit could reach the $300 billion range by the end of the decade. If that happened, said Feldstein, federal borrowing would be swallowing 75% of American savings and putting powerful upward pressure on interest rates. Even Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, usually an optimist and a critic of Feldstein's dour outlook, admitted that "without proper fiscal and monetary policies, there is a possibility of our slipping back into a recession in the U.S." Unless the Federal Reserve speeds up growth of the U.S. money supply, warned Treasury Under Secretary Beryl Sprinkel...
Other awards included in the emergency grants package were $1,041 for the first two issues of a new humor magazine. "The Harvard Optimist Club" and $577 to the Harvard Computer Society for a newsletter...
...prolific author (20 books, scores of articles), Robinson attempted to merge Marxian analysis with modern economics and harshly criticized "Bastard Keynesians" who, she believed, distorted the master's theories. Seeing little hope for "cruel" capitalism, she predicted in 1978 a global economic crisis, saying, "I am an optimist by temperament, but a pessimist by intellect...
...optimism; during the past year he concentrated on selling his vision of a prosperous world future to schools and textbook publishers. "We've had 20 years of pessimism in this country," he said at a heated exchange at the Hudson Institute. "Being a realist today makes one an optimist...