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  • It is far too early to say whether this view will be borne out or if it is overblown and fatalistic doom-mongering – but what is already apparent is that a number of advanced societies in the early decades of the 21st century are struggling to widen the circle of prosperity.

    Why the 'squeezed middle' is here to stay 2011

  • Not the words of a doom-mongering professional economist like Nouriel Roubini , but instead those of Arsene Wenger , the French manager of leading U.K. soccer club Arsenal.

    Overheard: European Soccer Sage 2011

  • I had an interesting exchange with a senior publisher last week who, among other things, said: The endless doom-mongering is making everyone panicky and inert.

    Booksellers (and e-readers) – you have never had it so good Robert McCrum 2010

  • To my mind, the doom-mongering on the world stage is simply intended to provide to same escape route as it did prior to the G20 summit: in the case that the green shoots don't grow rapidly enough, Brown can blame the "inaction" of other countries for our economic woes.

    Brown puts on his gloomy face for the world stage 2009

  • Back before the subprime crisis hit in earnest, before the real estate market tanked, warnings were dismissed as doom-mongering.

    Bob Jeffrey: Getting Grounded: An Agenda for the Near Future 2009

  • But, bizarrely, whenever they seek to create demand in the press, advertisers now find themselves inadvertently depressing it: for they are merely funding the media's own doom-mongering.

    Advertising alone can't cheer people up. But advertisers could. 2009

  • But, bizarrely, whenever they seek to create demand in the press, advertisers now find themselves inadvertently depressing it: for they are merely funding the media's own doom-mongering.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Technology Scares and the Media plotting the history of such doom-mongering scroll down the page to Talks.

    Archive 2009-08-01 TK 2009

  • To my mind, the doom-mongering on the world stage is simply intended to provide to same escape route as it did prior to the G20 summit: in the case that the green shoots don't grow rapidly enough, Brown can blame the "inaction" of other countries for our economic woes.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • To my mind, the doom-mongering on the world stage is simply intended to provide to same escape route as it did prior to the G20 summit: in the case that the green shoots don't grow rapidly enough, Brown can blame the "inaction" of other countries for our economic woes.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

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