Worried about the economic crisis? Is your car being repossessed? Were you an investor in Bernie Madoff’s ponzie scheme? Then this is the article for you.
Andreas Theyssen, chief political editor of Germany’s Financial Times Deutschland, recently penned this article of reasons to love the global economic downturn.
“It’s really difficult to bear. Every day the same bad news: wobbly banks, massive rescue packages, sales slumps, bankruptcies, a diminishing GDP and worsening unemployment figures. And every piece of bad news is a little worse than the one before. And it is likely to continue until the middle of the year, the end of the year, or perhaps all the way into next year.”
This is no longer tolerable. This typically-German lust for prophesies of doom! That typically Teutonic inclination to see the glass half empty, although it’s still half full! This has got to stop! That is why we, right here and now, are going to open your eyes and show you the beautiful side of the world economic crisis. You deserve no less!”
By Andreas Theyssen
Translated By Ulf Behncke
January 6, 2008
Germany – Financial Times Deutschland – Original Article (German)
Everyone is whining about the global economic crisis. We do not. Here are six reasons why this crisis has a good side.
It’s really difficult to bear. Every day the same bad news: wobbly banks, massive rescue packages, sales slumps, bankruptcies, a diminishing GDP and worsening unemployment figures. And every piece of bad news is a little worse than the one before. And it is likely to continue until the middle of the year, the end of the year, or perhaps all the way into next year.
This is no longer tolerable. This typically-German lust for prophesies of doom! That typically Teutonic inclination to see the glass half empty, although it’s still half full! This has got to stop! That is why we, right here and now, are going to open your eyes and show you the beautiful side of the world economic crisis. You deserve no less!
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