New Feature: The Biscuit Compendium of Pessimism
We here at Biscuit are pessimists (or, if you will, members of the reality-based community, 'depressive realists', poopy-pants, naysayers, or just plain downers). The Biscuit Compendium of Pessimism will quote other pessimists, both famous and not, on a variety of depressing topics: the environment, civil liberties, economic meltdown, fascism, the draft, health care, etc.
Indulge at your own risk, and only when supervised by a licensed mental health specialist.
Today's pessimist quote is from one of our favorite pessimists, Paul Krugman, in a Reuters article entitled "Krugman: Economic Crisis a Question of When, Not If": "So if you ask the question do we look like Argentina, the answer is a whole lot more than anyone is quite willing to admit at this point. We've become a banana republic."
posted by AmyN @ 12/16/2004 09:56:00 AM
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If you people run a banana republic, you are in good company. We in Australia have been facing this for a long time.
Walk into any room full of our economists and whisper "Argentina", and they will shit their pants.
If we go down the gurgler fast - as we fear - you will have the spectacle of this happening to a country which speaks English and is therefore real. That might make a difference to how Americans think.
- yer blog is fun to read, btw.
- barista
No, no, no, that's obviously not true, we wouldn't draw any paralells. Cuz you'd be going down the shitter counterclockwise, and we'd be swirling down clockwise. Obviously no relation.
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