As we wait to see whether Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank will tomorrow announce "whatever it takes" to save the euro (to use his resonant phraseof last week), it is worth reminding ourselves ofthe eurozone's unhealthy lifestyle (forgive my anthropomorphising please).
Perhaps it was predictable, then, that when he offered Congress his semi-annual testimony on the state ofthe economy this week, the chairman ofthe Federal Reserve Board avoided controversial phrase-making.