Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Epic Fail Of The Day (2)

... whoever it was who published this:

"Chen thinks GDP growth will be muted until household income starts to rise again."

Why not say "Chen thinks that household income will not start to rise until GDP grows again"?

2 comments:

Stan said...

Because our GDP growth is dependent on consumer spending - and consumer spending is dependent on household income.

It doesn't have to be this way, but this is the way that this (and previous governments) have chosen.

Nick von Mises said...

It's the Grauniad. That's why.