Reuters (March 15)
U.S. airlines are pointing to “concrete signs of an industry recovery as a slowing COVID-19 pandemic helps leisure bookings.” One of them, “Chicago-based United, which had been among the most pessimistic of the airlines heading into the pandemic a year ago, is the first to say it could hit the industry’s cash burn milestone” and return to the black in March.
Tags: Airlines, Bookings, Cash burn, Chicago, COVID-19, Leisure, March, Milestone, Pandemic, Pessimistic, Recovery, U.S., United
Bloomberg (November 24)
“Youthful optimism can be hard to find in Japan, where millennials rank as the gloomiest of those in the world’s biggest economies.” Less than 40% of Japan’s millennials are optimistic about the future, “making them the most pessimistic in 18 countries surveyed by ManpowerGroup. They’re even more downbeat than young Greeks, who have suffered Great Depression-like conditions and political upheaval in recent years.”
Tags: Downbeat, Future, Gloomiest, Great Depression, Greeks, Japan, ManpowerGroup, Millennials, Optimism, Pessimistic, Upheaval
The Economist (November 19)
“Reagan’s America was optimistic: Mr Trump’s is angry. Welcome to the new nationalism. For the first time since the second world war, the great and rising powers are simultaneously in thrall to various sorts of chauvinism. Like Mr Trump, leaders of countries such as Russia, China and Turkey embrace a pessimistic view that foreign affairs are often a zero-sum game in which global interests compete with national ones. It is a big change that makes for a more dangerous world.”
Tags: Angry, Chauvinism, China, Compete, Dangerous, Foreign affairs, Nationalism, Optimistic, Pessimistic, Reagan, Russia, Trump, Turkey, Zero-sum game
