But the problem, as the Financial Times so elegantly put it, is that the “credit orgy” is over. The liquor ran out. The music stopped. And someone called the cops. Bush and Bernanke show up with a few more bottles of booze, but the guests are already putting on their coats and fumbling for their car keys.
Quelle: Frightened Investors Have Knocked Down Stocks
Ich liebe The Daily Reckoning für diese immer so süffig geschriebenen Analysen der Finanzwelt!
Redewendungen, die man sich angesichts der unsicheren Wirtschaftsentwicklung unbedingt merken sollte:
- „When the shit hits the fan …“
if the shit hits the fan, a person or an organization gets into serious trouble.
Quelle: shit hits the fan
- „When the chicken come home to roost …“
if you say that chickens are coming home to roost, you mean that bad or silly things done in the past are beginning to cause problems.
Quelle: chickens come home to roost
