Here we are, at the beginning of a new year and, as conventional wisdom would have it, at the beginning of a new decade, signifying the end of the “noughties”. “Noughties” is a rather peculiar term, to put it mildly. It does seems a bit odd, in truth, that we appear not to be too sure when a decade actually starts or finishes.
Whether we are at the end of the decade or merely 9/10 through it does not really matter. What does matter, however, is where we find ourselves in terms of economic recession or recovery.
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