pessimism

His pessimism toward high finance was becoming tinged with political ideas.

The risk is that consumers’ renewed pessimism makes them less inclined to spend over the holidays—but forecasters remain confident that demand will stay strong through the end of the year.

Rising yields often tend to reflect rising optimism in the economic outlook, while falling yields generally capture more pessimism.

Paulsen takes most encouragement from just how much fear and pessimism are apparent in the media, in surveys and in newsflow.

“So, the real AI bubble is pessimism about AI leading to not owning enough of it?,” he ponders.