Names for economic gloom, via Bruce Sterling and the Twittersphere:
Meltdown, Credit Crunch, Great Recession, Econolypse, Depression II, D2, Compression, Subprimicide, Economic Debacle, Great Restructuring, the Bailout, TEOTWAWKI "The End of the World As We Know It," The Long Emergency, The New Dark Ages, The New Austerity, the Inflection, The Great Disruption, Housing Crisis, Market FAIL, The Great Re-Skilling, Global Economic Restructuring, Tsunami, the Enronicom, The Great Ponzi, the Great Fake, Bush's Legacy, Great Reset, Global Reboot, Unreal Estate, Wall Street Blues, Uncapitalism, Capitalism Eats Itself, the Deep Economic Wrinkle, Collapsonomics, Econocataclysm, Uneconomy, The Opportunity, Economy 3.0, The Crisis, The Credit-Shrink, the Lost Decade, the Economic Slump, the Black Swan, The Great Mistake, Communism 2.0, Moneyquake, Yuppie Famine, vapor margin-call, Ponziconomy, dinosaur culling, Crashmob, World Wide WTF, Revaluation, Reevaluation, Runoffonomy, Crisisonomy, Sythonomy, Economy 101, Econopocalypse, Force Restart, the Crater, Unconomy, Reconomy, Decredit, Crudit, Crunkit, Devaluation, De-globalization, the Asset Bubble, the Long Doom...
Name.... evil. naaaaaaaaaaaaaame evil!
Yet Another Karl Marx I Told You So Moment
Posted by: Account Deleted | March 17, 2009 at 18:12
@ Randy - indeed. I have been paraphrasing Marx to my students for years as "Capitalism will eat itself" - now I got to contribute to Chairman Bruce's exercise "Capitalism Eats Itself"
Chickens are in your home, roosting.
Posted by: Ed Webb | March 19, 2009 at 00:23
Actually, chickens *do* roost on my house!
We'll see if people remember to say "crisis of late late late capitalism."
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | March 23, 2009 at 12:39
Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent?
Posted by: Ed Webb | March 23, 2009 at 20:54