Economic crisis is like a blood-spurting, agonizing, murderous hemorrhagic fever: OECD

Best Gothic economic description of the week award goes to the OECD's secretary general:

"Contagion has already happened," Angel Gurria, the secretary general of the OECD, told Bloomberg News today. "This is like Ebola: When you realize you have it, you have to cut your leg off to survive."

Gives a new level of meaning to "belt-tightening", which Gurria mentions later on.

The Great Recession has been described in Gothic terms since 2008.  Has anyone archived and/or studied this?

(via Planet Money)

Comments

[Jamie Bono]

Amputation won't work for Ebola. I guess it's more like gangrene.

[Bryan Alexander]

But Ebola is just more spectacular.

...and more southern-oriented, being associated with Africa. Maybe a little (subconscious) gesture towards Greece?