The "D" word
More Leftist belief in the magical power of names to change reality
"British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that the world is in a full-blown economic "depression", but his office quickly scrambled to say it been a slip of the tongue. In his latest apparent gaffe - after mistakenly claiming to have "saved the world'' in December - Mr Brown said governments need to agree on coordinated stimulus measures to "take the world out of depression''.
"The biggest danger that the world faces is a retreat into protectionism,'' he told MPs at a weekly question session in the House of Commons dominated by the economic gloom. "It's all the more reason why first of all we should sign the Doha agreement... and secondly we should make sure that every country is analysed for what it is doing by the World Trade Organisation to prevent protectionism.
"It also is absolutely clear that we should agree as a world on a monetary and fiscal stimulus that will take the world out of depression,'' added the British leader, who more usually uses the words recession or slowdown.
But a short time later Mr Brown's Downing Street office said it had been a slip of the tongue. "It wasn't deliberate, it's not what he thinks,'' a spokesman said.
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So I suppose simply "f*cked up economy" wouldn't be appropriate either?
Is he related to US VP Joe Biden?
Amazing how superstitious so many people are about uttering words such as "cancer" or "depression", as if uttering the words above a whisper would somehow magically conjure the subject into existence. As for an economic depression, though, there is abundant evidence that the world is in one, and it will be recognized as such as more and more time goes by. And from the explanations of the Elliot Wave Theory and the fractal pattern of waves of human social mood, that says we completed Grand Supercycle Wave III in 2000. It began around 1784. For reference, Grand Supercycle Wave II, correcting the advance of Wave I, started around 1720 with the bursting of the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles. Now, according to the theory, we have Wave IV correcting Wave III, and its duration could easily match that of Wave II. The Great Depression was Supercycle wave (IV) of GS Wave III.
Robert buddy, you need to get out more!
Gordon uttered depression?
I take Prozac for that problem.
After all he could have mentioned Gollywog.
Now, when referring to the state of the Brit economy, that word would really make the Liberal establishment throw a wobbly!
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