IMF warns that world risks sliding into a 1930s-style slump

[Ghost Dog]

7. The Economist's D-word index:

This is the latest (in fact one and only) on this I can find (they really don't like to mention it, you see...).

Signs of a pending depression? The Economist's D-word index - Oct 2nd 2008
http://www.economist.com/node/12332693?story_id=12332693&source=features_box_main

MANY comparisons may be made between the devastation being wrought on America's financial system today and the Wall Street crash of 1929. One similarity that the world is desperate to avoid is a repeat of the depression of the 1930s. Hopes are pinned on the American bail-out plan that the House of Representatives is set to reconsider on Friday October 3rd. If the fear of depression is anything to go by, the future looks bleak. A survey of newspaper articles over the past two decades shows a sharp spike in mentions of the dreaded D-word, as commentators have started to think the worst. The prognostications may possibly turn out to be true, or perhaps the only thing we have to fear are the fears of journalists themselves...



But also... D-word index - Jul 3rd 2003 | from the print edition
http://enchanted.economist.com/node/1900274

Deflation is rampant. The Economist's D-word index (which counts the stories in the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal that include the word deflation) surged in the second quarter to its highest level since the 1930s.