"...wonder if the (media, analysts and others) will reuse the "green shoot" phrase this year. I mean it is so catchy and coincides well with spring time...it worked great last year for them. "Green Shoot" appeals to our subliminal desire for the end of the winter. It's gotta be the most successful word trick played on the sheeple ever. Soft landing, public conservatorship (nationalization), quantitative easing (printing money out of thin air), extraordinary rendition (abducting), etc comes nowhere near its success. US, being the most legalistic nation, is ruled by masters of word-trickery. Research shows that we used to have more people with engineering, science and business backgrounds in our government until a few decades ago lawyers started swamping the government."