Given his rosy comments, some may feel that Buffett is the epitome of a perma-bull.
Now, however, outside financing may be available to pull off the Eugene Perma deal.
It is not every day that perma-bear Nouriel Roubini sounds relatively optimistic on macroeconomic matters.
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But if Mr Edwards can be dubbed a perma-bear, most investment-bank strategists tend to be perma-bulls.
The charismatic, perma-tanned businessman co-founded Countrywide 40 years ago and turned it into the nation's largest mortgage lender.
Then strode to the stage the perma-bear investment adviser and Forbes columnist Gary Shilling, who dashed our hopes.
The perma-bears are looking mighty silly and are certainly the poorer for it.
Dubbed by many a perma-bear, Rosenberg made a name for himself by staying defensive and ahead of the curve.
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According to Dave Rosenberg, seen by many as a perma-bear, it will be really hard for a self-sustaining recovery to pick up.
While perma-bears have poured out their despondency the markets have rallied.
Several months into negotiations to add French hair-care-products maker Eugene Perma to his stable of orphaned consumer brands, Mitesh (Mike) Jatania is reining in his typical impatience.
Baby-boomers can chuck the day job at 60 or 65 and head off into the perma-tanned sunset (they will probably prove freakishly long-lived), borrowing against the inflated value of their houses as they do so.
Another point that those of a more perma-bull persuasion make regarding the huge bond fund inflows over the past few years (and flows out of equities), is that investors have shifted their asset allocation from stocks to bonds at precisely the wrong time.
In Mankato Troop 76 alone, amongst the scant few athletes and Honor Roll-ees, there was the Goth kid who collected illegal butterfly knives, the pale basement dweller whose shoulders blistered in the sun, the Magic the Gathering player with a perma-Kool-Aid-stache, the compulsive liar, and the chain smoker who came to meetings still dressed in his Burger King uniform.
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