The Metropolis

City AM - chronicle of the apocalypse

Mike Pollitt | Tuesday 15 November, 2011 10:06

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Do you ever pick up a Metro on the way to work and flick impatiently to the showbusiness pages, only to fling it disgustedly to the floor as you realise that you’ve actually picked up City AM and you’re reading an interview with an iron futures trader?

This happened to me this morning. But then I got bored, picked up the paper and gave it a whirl. Big mistake. Here are a few of the headlines.

Merkel: Euro crisis worst since WW11
UK set for a decade of deleveraging
US stocks dented by Europe worries
Industry declines in the Eurozone while Portugal falls even deeper into recession
Insurers see disaster costs mount in 2011

OH GOD OH GOD MAKE IT STOP PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.

Future historians take note: the decline and fall of our civilisation was chronicled here.

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