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Overoptimistic

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Excessively optimistic

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Individual speculators may lose from the resulting busts but society gains from their overoptimistic investments.

Whereas sentiment on equities may have been overoptimistic at the end of 2013, it may have been too pessimistic about bonds; inflation is lower than it was a year ago in America, Britain and the euro area.

This appears overoptimistic given the loss of domestic and external confidence as a result of the banking collapse, the projected weakness of the global economy in the coming years, and the mammoth debt repayment burden now facing Iceland's 300,000 inhabitants.

The resulting inflows distorted economic activity, boosted peripheral wages while productivity lagged, and gave some southern governments an overoptimistic sense of their fiscal situation.

But while the public sector has been rightly criticised for overoptimistic assumptions about invetsment returns, they do allow for the better longevity of their workers; a separate paper by the CRR finds that plans are pretty good at keeping up to date with demographic change.

And so past Chilean governments were sorely tempted to make overoptimistic predictions about the future copper price, thereby allowing them to embark on bulky spending programmes.

And Mr Kahneman cites studies that show how overoptimistic chief executives (as measured by the amount of stock they own) were more likely to gear up their balance-sheets and pay too much for acquisitions.The problem with overoptimism was illustrated by the investment-bank collapses of 2008.

That job had always belonged to the Treasury, but under Gordon Brown a run of persistently overoptimistic projections for public borrowing undermined its credibility.

That is overoptimistic.

But even this seems overoptimistic, particularly on the revenues side.

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