And believe me, I've tried. I do my best to be an informed citizen, but none of this stuff registers at all in my brain. Do you know what economics-speak reminds me of? Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky:
Please don't mistake this reference as indicative of any disdain I bear towards this poem - on the contrary, it is quite possibly my favorite of all. I instead mean to imply that the lexicon of economics makes about as much sense to me as that of Jabberwocky. And I take them equally seriously. So what does a recession mean to me? Hell if I know. It sounds like a bad thing, though, kind of like a receding hair line; the most insight I can glean from all this stuff about a recession is that the price of Honey Bunches of Oats is probably going to go up even more, and that is a tragedy if ever there was one.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Please don't mistake this reference as indicative of any disdain I bear towards this poem - on the contrary, it is quite possibly my favorite of all. I instead mean to imply that the lexicon of economics makes about as much sense to me as that of Jabberwocky. And I take them equally seriously. So what does a recession mean to me? Hell if I know. It sounds like a bad thing, though, kind of like a receding hair line; the most insight I can glean from all this stuff about a recession is that the price of Honey Bunches of Oats is probably going to go up even more, and that is a tragedy if ever there was one.
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