My daughter continued her "conversation" as I sat down on the floor. She said, "I'm all fed up. I just don't know what to do with her anymore. She cries whenever I have to work and wants to play games, too."
After spending yesterday in Berlin, I can tell you the German government is mightily fedup with all this speculation - and fedup with getting blamed for everything bad happening in the global economy (last week's cover of the Economist, for example).
So although we may all be fedup with the economy's torpor, and would be keen for a bit of renewed growth, it is not clear that any growth sparked by a new housing-linked consumer boom would be altogether healthy.