For more than a year, the linguistics work of www.halfpasthuman.com has been pointing with a high degree of specificity to October 7, 2008 at 07:10 UTC as a 'moment' on the timeline when the whole world will stop its 'tension building language around present events and will shift into what we call 'release language'. To explain a bit further, the events we have seen recently have been predominately the kind that cause us to suck in breath, and hold it, very much like I'm watching the U.S. futures markets which show the SPOO's down about 3% while things in the UK are right on the verge of collapse. If the language is right, 'you ain't seen nothing yet' and the balance of this week should be the mother of all economic events that will be referred to in future textbooks as the (whatever-they-call-it) of 2008.
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