Macrofinancial Causes of Optimism in Growth Forecasts

Explaining Bureaucratic Optimism: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Executive Agency Macroeconomic Forecasts

Freight transport development forecasts in enterprises management

In this study, an investigation of long-term forecasts relating to the development of the transport sector in Poland is performed, including the ones by 2030 and 2050. Selected transport development forecasts from the perspective of the membership of Poland in the European Union are presented and most of all, from the perspective of national studies. The basement for the review was the prognosi...

Cautious optimism for growth in Alzheimer's disease treatments.

Available options for Alzheimer's disease are used only for symptomatic improvement, but disease-modifying therapies may help triple annual medication sales by 2023.

Causes of Declining Growth

From 1979 to 1989, growth in U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) slowed to only 2.5 percent per year. From 1989 through the first half of 1992, growth has slowed further to only 0.5 percent, with growth reduced about 2 percent below normal due to transitory cyclical factors. Thus, either way you look at it, what is alternately termed trend, secular, steady-state, or capacity growth has slowe...

In search of optimism.

As Sir William Osler a very eminent physician once said "To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all". There is no substitution for the study of a disease process than the observations made at the bedside of a sick patient. I thoroughly recommend your apprenticeship because without it you will nev...