Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

I'm guessing that years from now we will mostly refer to it simply and generically as a recession, albeit a fairly serious one. Are you old enough to remember the banking crisis and credit crunch in the 1980s, as well as the stagflation and energy crisis of the 1970s? I think much of what is bothering people about what's going on now is that so much of it seems like it was avoidable!  

The communiaction decade (cell phones and internet)

I like the term "Crecession" reminds me to the cretaceous period, the final time period of the dinosaurs.

Perhaps we could follow the lead of Alfred Kahn (think back to the Carter administration) and call it a "banana." Better still, "The Really Big Banana."