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
Maintain the rage.
That sounds like you're permanently angry.
'perpetual pessmist' ... permapist?
Wasn't that a song by the Buzzcocks?
Oh, good. Because the last thing one would need is a Permabear in the Pit of Despair.
No, no. Just a permanent bear.
But not, I presume, permanently pessimistic.
I like this word. I want to be this word.
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