1 | IT HAS been deep and nasty. But the worst global recession since the 1930s may be over. | |
2 | Swine flu had been stable since 1918 - and then suddenly, in this period, went super-charged. | |
3 | About midnight, while we still sat up, the storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury. | |
4 | The recession itself - one often compared with today's downturn - was savage, but it was over in less than two years. | |
5 | Yet the subsequent slowdown seems to be greater than can be explained by the number of people directly affected by the changed rules. |