The Fed has admitted recently that its projections for the US economy over the past few years have been overly optimistic, forcing it to continue its extraordinary measures for longer than initially intended.
It is also in retreat in Sirte in Libya, in a collapse that came much more quickly than even the most optimistic western forces had expected.
He also pointed to the team's regular-season success against Boston as a reason the Penguins should feel optimistic about forcing a fifth game back in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Despite sweaty dresses, dirty, scuffed up pumps and a few self-esteem crushing "nos", I remained optimistic and forced myself to smile and stay enthusiastic, just like my dad had taught me.
Of course, things are looking pretty optimistic for The Force Awakens.
With all of that in mind, I'm optimistic about The Force Awakens.
Lampedusa's Sicily is a place where the optimistic, progressive, rational forces of history as viewed in the 19th century - the march of liberal democracy and of socialism alike - get lost in baroque back streets at midnight.
With new information from a reporter on the front lines, it reported instead something far less optimistic: that allied forces had faced considerable setbacks in Karbala, about 70 miles south of Baghdad, and could even be undermanned there.
Let's just take a moment here to consider how truly terrible the domestic sitcom can be; a small, short lament for the 676 other rickety LOL-wagons per year that poor, beleaguered TV previewers and optimistic audiences are forced to endure.
Like other officers here at the headquarters for the Army's forces, he is optimistic that the strength of the Third Infantry Division and 101st Airborne Division, coupled with thousands of marines and supplemented by air strikes, will crush the Iraqi military and paramilitary loyalists around Baghdad.
