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Robert Prechter of Elliott Wave, who is 'King of the Bears' enough that he is called a permabear, came on CNBC this afternoon after the closing bell to tout the new bear market or that what we have seen is a still nothing more than a bear market rally.
24/7 Wall St. Administrator 2010
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Since we don't start 'til Tuesday, any irrational exuberance to counter my "permabear" outlook?
The Big Picture 2008
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I'm not quite a "permabear", like Wall Street Jackass, but I'm very cautious about the near-term future for equities.
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Each January, Gary Shilling, a US economist often characterised as a "permabear," issues his predictions for the coming year and suggests related investment ideas.
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A few folks out there have called me a "permabear" claiming that I missed the recovery.
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Professor Roubini is known in the economics trade as a "permabear" because of his repeated claims over the last six years that a financial system based on self-regulation, non-deposits, highly leveraged subprime housing debts and globalised derivatives trading was unsustainable and would collapse.
Irish Blogs 2008
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Stephen Mihm (A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States, HUP 2007, forthcoming in paperback) continues his streak of excellent writing for the New York Times Magazine, this time taking on "permabear" economist Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the current housing crisis/oil shock/consumer confidence bust way back in 2006, and who was widely derided for doing so (a "permabear," by the way, is what economists call a colleague they see as consistently over-pessimistic).
Mihm vs. Dr. Doom 2008
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We will get it cleaned up and actually, I'm not a permabear.
Get Briefed: Nouriel Roubini Chris Barth 2011
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It is the people of the United States who have had enough of this doomsday crap about our climate. "permabear wrote," Ignorance and stupidity reign.
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We should not comment on the issue, and simply support our only real ally and only real democratic secular republic in the middle east: Israel ... "permabear said," Netanyahu and the Israeli right are just as blind and foolish as Bush and the American right.
john commented on the word permabear
At the time, unemployment and inflation remained low, and the economy, while weak, was still growing, despite rising oil prices and a softening housing market. And then there was the espouser of doom himself: Roubini was known to be a perpetual pessimist, what economists call a “permabear.�?
The New York Times, Dr. Doom, by Stephen Mihm, August 15, 2008
August 18, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word permabear
I like this word. I want to be this word.
August 18, 2008
reesetee commented on the word permabear
But not, I presume, permanently pessimistic.
August 18, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word permabear
No, no. Just a permanent bear.
August 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word permabear
Oh, good. Because the last thing one would need is a Permabear in the Pit of Despair.
August 19, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word permabear
Wasn't that a song by the Buzzcocks?
August 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word permabear
'perpetual pessmist' ... permapist?
August 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word permabear
That sounds like you're permanently angry.
August 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word permabear
Maintain the rage.
August 19, 2008