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Intervention: Learned Optimism
Martin Seligman's Learned Optimism is used in an intervention for a depressed elderly patient named Sigmund Freud.
Length: 720
Rating: 4.40 (14 ratings)
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Asia's Mega-Deal Optimism
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Asia shares soothed by several large takeover bids; China markets rise after Party officials step in.
ZHANG: Asia stock markets gained on Monday as several mega-deals calmed market jitters.
Japan's Nikkei rose to a two-week high, an increase of 2.7 percent. Internet-related companies like Softbank surged on hopes that Microsoft's $45 billion bid for Yahoo would boost valuations.
Global stock markets have taken a beating this year on fears a U.S. slowdown and credit crunch would dry up large takeover deals.
Investors shrugged off those fears in Australia, as shares edged up 0.4 percent. Gold miner Rio Tinto gained after U.S. company Alcoa teamed up with a Chinese firm to buy a $14 billion stake in the company last week. That share raid complicates a bid for Rio Tinto by rival firm BHP Billiton.
But BHP Billiton also rose as investors bet that the firm would not end up overpaying for Rio.
Shanghai stocks were up after authorities intervened to halt last week's slide by approving new stock mutual funds after a freeze of several months.
Elsewhere in Asia, markets in Seoul and Taiwan gained, with the KOSPI up 3.5 percent and the TAIEX up 2 percent. Hong Kong stocks surged in the morning session, and ended the day 3.8 percent higher, led by construction materials plays.
Length: 71
Rating: 5.00 (4 ratings)
Tags: Asia's Mega-Deal Optimism china ntdtv brief finance economy market stock shares japan nikkei softbank yahoo microsoft
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Larry Brilliant: The case for informed optimism
http://www.ted.com Google.org director Larry Brilliant uses a clip from an old Frank Capra movie to show that we've known about global warming for 50 years -- yet in half a century, we've done almost nothing to solve it. He explores this and other megatrends that could inspire pessimism. But, he says, there is a more powerful case for optimism.
Length: 1261
Rating: 4.30 (61 ratings)
Tags: Larry Brilliant ted tedtalks climate change optimism culture global issues health peace partner talk
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Obama's 'optimism' questioned
Max Boot, a foreign policy adviser to US Republican hopeful John McCain, says Barack Obama is being "optimistic" about the Middle East.
Length: 229
Rating: 4.20 (6 ratings)
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Reasons for Optimism on Climate Change?
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_and_Peter_Schwartz_on_Human_Progress
Historian Niall Ferguson debates futurist author Peter Schwartz on reasons to feel optimistic about the issue of global climate change.
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Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz present Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars about Long-term Thinking.
Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
He is most recently the author of the books The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006) and Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004).
Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network (GBN), a unique membership organization and worldwide network of strategists, business executives, scientists, and artists based in Emeryville, California. Established in 01988, GBN specializes in corporate scenario planning and research on the future of the business environment. From 01982 to 01986, Peter headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies.
Schwartz is the co-author of both the 01999 books The Long Boom, and When Good Companies Do Bad Things: Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization, and is the author of the 01991 book, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. He is a member of the Long Now Foundation's Board of Directors.
Length: 248
Rating: 5.00 (5 ratings)
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Elections Provide Optimism in Pakistan
Lisa Curtis, a senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, says the United States should embrace recent developments in Pakistan
Pakistan's Historic Election Encourages Democracy
http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1819.cfm
Length: 110
Rating: 4.40 (5 ratings)
Tags: Lisa Curtis Heritage in Focus Pakistan Protect America American Leadership
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Market Report - Oil Drop Boosts Optimism
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Oil prices continued to drop from record peaks on Thursday, boosting Asian investor confidence and the buying power of the U.S. dollar.
The fall came on the back of a recent 15 percent slide in crude prices, despite the peak summer travel season in North America.
The dollar's rise against Asian currencies makes exporters like Toyota more attractive.
Toyota also announced that its global sales rose in the first half of the year. Sales at U.S. rival General Motor's fell 3 percent--including a steep drop in North America.
Still, overall exports from Japan fell in June for the first time in nearly five years, as a weaker U.S. economy weighed on demand.
A morning earthquake that rattled northern Japan had some effect on industry in the area. Electronics makers Fujitsu and NEC halted production to check for damage to semiconductor factories.
Also on Thursday, China Construction Bank denied media reports that it has $7 billion in bonds issued by troubled U.S. mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Reports cited a research note from brokerage firm CLSA, which also stated that Bank of China may hold roughly $20 billion in bonds issued by Fannie and Freddie, and that mainland lenders overall may have more than $30 billion of exposure to the two firms.
Length: 95
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
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