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Weekly Wrap: The recession and more stimulus
A Wall Street sign in New York City's financial district.
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For a while it seemed that Leigh Gallagher had cleaned up some of the padding words she habitually uses, but on Friday, Sept. 3, the first words out of her mouth were "Y'know." The effect of her conversation with Felix Salmon was that of an articulate, educated Brit trying to communicate with a dippy American teenager. Can you point out to her that the incessant use of "y'know" and "I mean" makes her sound dumb?
This has been bothering me since I heard it on Friday. I believe I'm going to hurl if I hear one more person say that folks who will have been unemployed for more than a year will be "unemployable." Do we live in a cultural vacuum? Will future employers all have amnesia? No. Like the Great Depression, we will give this economic crisis a name for its place in history, like the Momentous Meltdown or the Plundered Plunge. Or something. And we will remember it and gradually come to a better understanding of what we lived through as a nation. Doing things while unemployed is very important and those things will count, even on paper. You bet they will.
