Waking up in
This seems so quintessentially American. Whereas we feel being bailed out is rather shameful, a mark of failure, on the other side of the Atlantic people see this as a terrific opportunity to set up a business selling courses about how to do well out of the economic mess.
The ad is being placed by an organization called 'National Grants Conferences' and contains lots of mentions of the American Dream. The present crisis, the ad states, is your chance to start achieving this Dream. One of the free publications it offers to those signing on for a course is called: 'Fortunes from Foreclosures'.
This is all so American. Where we wimpy Europeans wring our hands and worry over the credit crunch, they're setting up new businesses to profit from it.
Imagine what would happen in the event of
What if they announced the end of the world? Seminars on "Surviving the Apocalypse"? Web pages on "Your fast track to heaven?" Ooops. Those already exist.