It's what vice president Spiro Agnew used to call the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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Nattering nabobs of negativity have filled the press and punditry surrounding cleantech in 2012.

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At that point, nattering nabobs of scientific negativism will no longer be given the time of day.

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"No, he'd have to call them nabobs of nothingness, " Loren said and laughed at his own joke.

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But, inevitably, some Nattering Nabobs emerged to argue that all of these Positives were actually Negatives, especially for enterprises.

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There are a few nattering nabobs who say the figures are skewed because the Mint credited some December sales to January.

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It would make economic and financial policy more independent from the nabobs of Wall Street, who would have access to anyone appointed from the tired list of possibilities.

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It was here that the unelected, largely unknown and unaccountable nabobs of central banking actually began to fix the global monetary system in a series of ad hoc and highly irregular deals with each other.

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