The word “recession” wouldn’t describe the deep structural problems affecting everything from the U.S. housing sector to the Canadian oil industry, said Bank of Nova Scotia chief economist Warren Jestin.
“You have to invent a new word to describe what we’re in now,” he said after the banks presented their perspectives at the Economic Club.
Trust me brother, the word already exists. Nobody wants to say it…yet.
CTV.ca | Bank economists predict: ‘worse than a recession’.

From today’s Wordspy

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I love a can of Coke at about 3:30 or 4 in the afternoon, it helps me get through the post lunch coma. I know its not that good for me, and this guy’s article Getting high on a can of Coke describes what is happening inside me when I drink this stuff.

The motion graphics make the subject matter even more compelling
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Honey bees are disappearing from hives all over the world. Normally, I would be quite happy with this, as I don’t particularly care for bees, but honeybees are used for pollination of over 30 % of the world’s food supply. They think that the culprit may be pesticides.