Or that we should get-the-rot-out by letting both all wages and profits fall?

FORBES: Dan Mitchell Wants to Ditch Keynesian-Laced GDP -- He's Right

Brown at EDS, Fiorina is trying to root out the rot that insiders tolerate or fail even to see.

FORBES: All Carly, all the time

On the one hand, James Murdoch can say that the rot within his organisation has tonight been cut out.

BBC: Big questions for News International

Japan is more like a battered vessel, which has rotten timbers and many leaks, and the right question to ask is whether the rate at which the government repairs the ship and bails it out can outpace the spread of rot and entry of water.

ECONOMIST: Goodbye, Hashimoto

Most stockmarkets have fallen in each of the past three years, and many investors are hoping that getting the war out of the way will stop the rot.

ECONOMIST: War and Iraq

Not even the return of McGrath, after three games out with a whiplash injury suffered in a car accident a week ago, could stop the rot.

BBC: Vaughan absent as Tykes miss out