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Jim Glassman, chief economist at JP Morgan, considers all the gloom, doom and dreary appraisals of the U.S. economy to be nothing more than pessimistic chatter.

His was a message of hope and faith as a guest lecturer during the 2^nd Annual IMPACT Southern Miss: Turning Knowledge into Innovation Forum held Thursday, Jan. 26 at the Trent Lott Center on The University of Southern Mississippi campus.

“The tide is coming in,” said Glassman to a large audience that included representatives from the banking, finance and academic communities. “History has shown that we may stumble but we always come back. Human beings are resilient, and we always smell new opportunities and ways to reinvent ourselves.”