In difficult times, pessimism is a self fulfilling, self inflicted death sentence.

Environmental NGOs worry that raising expectations could worsen the fallout from failure, damaging efforts at the national level to build low carbon economies. But this threatens to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Now what I'm doing is fulfilling your expectations of how I should live my life.

When deflationary expectations are entrenched, as they are in Europe today, consumers and investors delay spending on the ground that prices and costs will be lower tomorrow. Those expectations become self fulfilling, because less spending means even less inflation and, in the worst case, falling prices.

Kicillof s second point was that Argentina s businesses and consumers should not succumb to pessimism. Alluding to Keynes s theories about self fulfilling expectations, he warned that, if people expect things to go wrong, they will.

It's a self fulfilling prophecy. We can't get out of it.

Obviously, Microsoft owns its old software and can decide at what price to sell it or whether to sell it at all. More subtly, Microsoft can control expectations, which turn out to be self fulfilling when network economies are substantial, as they are in software markets.

So the books are in English, the journals are done in English, but that is a self fulfilling prophecy.

SPLM A may face internal challenges in adopting commonly acceptable policies, easing old regional rivalries, fulfilling political and socio economic expectations of its combatants and leaders and addressing the requests of its Leadership Council.

Its presence is enough to support a benign self fulfilling prophecy. In other words, Draghi s bazooka has anesthetized markets, impairing their ability to assess risk.

DMOs can propose innovative quality products in the form of self tailored packages and product centric specifics that will meet the expectations of travelers.

But, in terms of practical company management, such ideological polarization is not particularly useful. If managers had to choose between fulfilling the expectations of shareholders and meeting their social and ethical responsibilities, their companies would probably collapse.

On one side is the danger that today s alarmism will prove self fulfilling that trade officials and investors will turn the doomsday scenario into reality by panicking. On the other side is the danger that a completed development round will fail to live up to the high expectations that it has spawned, further eroding the legitimacy of global trade rules over the longer run.

Both sides must take care that an incident concerning Taiwan does not lead in that direction. Americans and Chinese must avoid letting exaggerated fears create a self fulfilling prophecy.

Confidence is a self fulfilling prophecy, and we can, and should, manage it by direct intervention in asset markets. The way ahead leads through science, not ideology, dogma, or failed theories.

Continuous talk of a Sunni Shia divide might ultimately develop into a self fulfilling prophecy. Alarmist rhetoric may, in the end, jeopardize rather than protect the status quo in the region.

Fulfilling the Genomic Promise

Seminar expectations

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In 1991, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, who is perhaps the world s leading Keynesian today, showed that whether or not expectations are self fulfilling depends on underlying economic conditions. If an economy s fundamentals are very weak, a crisis will inevitably occur sooner or later if its fundamentals are very strong, a crisis never happens and if they are in an intermediate range, a crisis happens if and only if people expect one.

Goals and expectations

Goals and expectations

Here, we are fulfilling our obligations.

To be sure, central bank intervention is not the only way to quell self fulfilling crises in the eurozone. Fiscal transfers, whereby eurozone countries commit to provide funds to their distressed counterparts, could also work.

But the commitment is important. The specter of a collapse of Europe s banks, like the specter of a self fulfilling debt crisis, has been banished, allowing Europe s nose diving economies to pull up in time.

Were your expectations met?

The process of isolation of Israel starts in the heads of its citizens, and is becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. History has taught the Jewish people that they can count only on themselves for protection and survival.

Great Expectations for the Renminbi

The world's expectations are high.

Hence, their expectations were met.

Our expectations are indeed minimal.

Before even a word has been spoken, Europeans are being told that the negotiations in Brussels will be bad tempered, with vetoes by individual member states looming large. Unfortunately, such talk could well become a self fulfilling prophecy.

And loss of confidence, by discouraging consumption and investment, can be a self fulfilling prophecy, causing the economic weakness that is feared. Significant drops in consumer confidence indices in Europe and North America already reflect this perverse dynamic.

In this context, the fear that Afghanistan will unravel once again risks becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. In fact, a closer look at various key governments approaches to Afghanistan reveals that only the US is maintaining a coherent stance.

Dark prophecies are often wrong, but they may also become self fulfilling. Let s be honest playing Cassandra nowadays is not only tempting in a media world where good news is no news it actually seems more justified than ever.

Indeed, the academic literature was chock full of models of financial bubbles, asymmetric information, incentive distortions, self fulfilling crises, and systemic risk. But, in the years leading up to the crisis, many economists downplayed these models lessons in favor of models of efficient and self correcting markets, which, in policy terms, resulted in inadequate governmental oversight over financial markets.

It's about our beliefs and expectations.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

She lived up to our expectations.

Defining performance expectations for programme delivery

Fulfilling those criteria would add legitimacy for continued permanent status.

His response was contrary to our expectations.

Other people's expectations affect how we behave.

Its modernization was far beyond my expectations.