One insider thinks this unlikely: many parents have remortgaged to pay fees, and with house prices shaky and banks tightening their lending criteria, this route is fast closing off.
Maintaining this environment is very costly, and recent research shows that even old oil paint is unaffected by wide fluctuations in temperature and humidity.
While this removes the immediate risk of an oil price shock, the wild gyrations in the oil price this week suggest that commodity price volatility is here to stay.
To avoid monthly gyrations caused by weather or other temporary factors, the figures use three-month moving averages of seasonally adjusted annual rates.
One hypothesis is that it's a natural phenomenon, that the starfish naturally undergo population fluctuations following particularly good spawning years.
If the number of active threads is sharply fluctuating or very low for the expected workload, the requests are not reaching the Web container in an orderly fashion.