"A Cassandra is a hopelessly honest person, while a Pollyanna is an incredibly hopeful person, the incurable optimist. Cassandras are often disparaged as "nattering nabobs of negativism/negativity," instead of being looked upon as prophetic realists, while Pollyannas are deservedly dismissed as the "pandering puppies of positivity/positivism." To wit, this wondrously self-satirical clip pitting Marc Faber's doom-and-gloom reality with Becky Quick's boom-and-boom status quo."
- Sources: ZeroHedge and CNBC:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-23/cassandra-marc-faber-versus-pollyanna-cnbc#comment-3092002
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/Video_Gallery