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Kaufman is not the only pessimist on Wall Street. Felix Rohatyn, a partner of Lazard Frères, an investment banking house, warns that "the next twelve to 18 months are going to be potentially the most dangerous period that I have seen in 30-plus years in the banking business." Rohatyn is wor ried about possible corporate bankruptcies and the failure of some banks or savings and loan institutions as well as rising unemployment. Last week the Labor Department released figures that supported those glum views. Unemployment in December jumped to a near record 8.9%, up from...
Ideologically and temperamentally, Green is a pessimist who echoes Freud's fundamentally tragic view: humankind's animal instincts limit the realization of its ideals. Such a bleak belief is, of course, a wellspring of humor. Freud did not promise a rose garden, only that the aim of treatment was "transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Green informs and amuses Malcolm with seriocomic tales about the infantile needs of himself and other psychoanalysts: their sharp clothes, boring talk of summer real estate, erotic entanglements with patients and strivings for position and prestige. Green's own analysis...
...feminist, I am pleased that Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra O'Connor for the Supreme Court. As a pessimist, I fear that he will continue to ignore other women's issues. He will reason that he has now "done something" and doesn't have to do anything more...
Lila, the optimist of the pah", was thrilled that so many people had answered; Wallace, always the pessimist, was disappointed that so many had not. There were enough positive replies, however, to justify publication in February...
...that loans to LDCs would be insufficient to cover their deficits. De Vries, however, was among a minority of economists who correctly argued that OPEC would rapidly increase its imports and who predicted that international banks could handle the remaining petrodollar surplus. Now that optimist De Vries has turned pessimist, world moneymen are becoming very nervous...