Land it in the Hudson
I subscribe to a daily email from UrbanDictionary (www.urbandictionary.com. Still working on how to correctly insert links.), today’s “word of the day” is:
Land it in the Hudson. An expression used to encourage yourself or someone else when it appears an endeavor is headed for a disastrous outcome (due mostly to external conditions). Based on when Sully averted tragedy by successfully landing US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. See also, “Land it like Sully.”
We are in historic times right now. The path of the US economy is on the same course as Flight 1549, minus the geese of course. If our government does everything right from this point forward, good luck Mr. Geithner, we won’t get as close to averting disaster as Captain “Sully” Sullenberger did.
But suppose for a second that miraculously, we do Land it in the Hudson. How would our way life be? Would anything change? Would we go back to doing things just like we did in 2007 with rose colored glasses on? Would more government sanctions be put in place on financial institutions? Will closer monitoring on people like Bernie Madoff be the norm? If somehow the stock market rebounded this afternoon to previous highs, and banks started issuing credit/loans tomorrow, how would you proceed? What would you do the same? What would you do differently?
