Last December, he made the then-widely optimistic call that Amazon.com would hit $400 a share.
Although it buys time for Greece, the latest debt deal has been widely criticized as being overly optimistic in expecting Greece to produce the growth and fiscal discipline needed to bring its debt down to less than 120 percent of gross domestic product after 2020, from 175 percent today.
The optimistic view of the economy, widely espoused on Wall Street, goes like this: The Nasdaq's January bounce back is a harbinger of good economic news and its February retreat only temporary.
The optimistic view of the economy, widely espoused on Wall Street, goes like this: The Nasdaq's January rebound is a harbinger of good economic news, and its February retreat is only temporary.
Barry Ritholz takes a bite out of David Lereah, the former chief economist of the National Association of Realtors who was widely known among journalists for his hallucinatory excessively optimistic statements about the real estate market.
We propose a peer-to-peer solution for distributing and managing dynamic content, that combines two widely studied technologies: Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) and optimistic replication.
That deadline now looks optimistic now, but an agreement is widely expected in 2016.
In spite of these findings, direct-to-consumer genetic tests that claim to predict susceptibility for T2D are now widely available [ 20], and some researchers are optimistic that this information might enhance preventive strategies [ 13, 21, 22].
It is widely accepted that these growth forecasts are far too optimistic.
Can we be optimistic that it will one day be widely acceptable to be Muslim and gay?
The overestimation also applies to the widely used IARC results, and may have raised too optimistic expectations about the effectiveness of cervical cancer screening.
