Data Quote by Brian Wesbury

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

— Stephen King

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

— Ron Fournier

When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

— Norman Cousins

How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be.

— Peter Schwartz

“Therefore, I wish to say it again: The biggest story of the last fifteen years, both nationally and globally, is the growing likelihood that…

— Tyler Cowen

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it…

— Robert Orben

Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as…

— Stanley Fischer

Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the…

— Janet Yellen

“We conclude that most of the time, the future will look a lot like the past, with both up cycles and down cycles. There…

— Howard Marks

I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't…

— Phil Gramm

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

— John Corey Whaley