Maybe the carpers are right about inflation exploding, about gold spiking along with silver.

FORBES: The US Has Off-Balance Sheet, Unrecorded Debt of 500% of GDP

FSA's clever and confident chairman, thinks these moves should be enough to silence the carpers.

ECONOMIST: Financial regulation

Somewhere along the way the writing and thinking folks (on both sides of the Atlantic) have ceded most of the public conversation about language to the carpers, whiners and peevers.

BBC: Viewpoint: American English is getting on well, thanks

But the critics and carpers conveniently overlook the fact that taxpayers would have lost considerably more money if Ripplewood hadn't stepped in and saved what was left of the bank.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Even if the outcome is not the Lib Dem nirvana of a hung parliament, with its mythical potential for coalitions and pacts, the party may emerge stronger than the carpers predict.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Letting a technology like ClearPlay's proliferate should spur more demand for video rentals and sales with no extra investment from Hollywood--and act as a chill pill to congressional carpers like John McCain and Joe Lieberman.

FORBES: Monster in a Box