It's just that the banks are struggling with difficult markets and spluttering loan demand in a normal business downturn.
Any evidence that U.S. growth is spluttering along would be risk appetite friendly.
Indeed, it is France that feels the need to crank up the spluttering Franco-German motor that once propelled Europe forward.
Some Tory supporters would still like to rein back public spending on health or education, and were spluttering from their armchairs after Mr Lilley's speech.
"The spluttering world economic recovery would be very likely to be undermined and fresh rounds of financial turmoil could come back to haunt us all, " it said.
Sinewy men, cigarettes dangling from their mouths, unload boxes of supplies into the waiting trucks, while locals greet their families and clamber into one of the spluttering tuk-tuks lined up alongside the quay.
The economy and the stockmarket are both spluttering.
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It is ironic that the very band they are trying to emulate probably did not make enough money in their spluttering career to pay for one of the industrial-strength speaker stacks that dominate the skyline whenever Metallica play live.
Forty per cent of our exports and more go into the Eurozone, so if things are spluttering there - as they are very seriously - then of course that affects us massively, which is why you know it's hugely in our national interest to make sure that the Eurozone is strong.
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