Competition! Euphemism-itis

There is a disease in our media - Euphemism-itis. No-one in the media can say the word 'recession' as it is a bad word and has a technical definition that the country has not reached ... yet. So we have now spawned 101 different terms that people are using instead. Lets see how many we can find! I'll go first:...fiscal downturn...testing economic times...economic turmoil...challenging economic