I never expected to hear the 'D' word applied to my lifetime, although my mother, who was a small child during the Great Depression, habitually recycles buttons and sometimes even zippers.
My film became an account of the boom and bust years, told through the experience of one family, and all played out under the neon of Vegas, where fortunes are won and lost every night.
"That is how we will restore trust and confidence in our markets," he said. "that is how we will help to put an end to the cycles of boom and bust that we have seen."
Said PricewaterhouseCooper's Silverman, "There will be boom and bust again, I'm sure." But I don't see what happened in the first go-around repeating itself.
As chancellor he claimed not only to have done away with "boom and bust", but also to have presided over the longest period of sustained growth since 1701.