Have you got a better suggestion?
It was termed a year ago when the first financial tremors hit the credit market, but journalists and commentators were wary of using the word "crisis" as it fuels the herd mentality of traders and idiots (like the morons queueing for their cash outside Northern Rock) which in itself creates the crisis.

So what would YOU call it? The credit whimper? The credit we-didn't-know-what-the-fuck-we-were-doing? The credit irk?
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 18:19, 1 reply)

I'd call it
the inevitable consequence of capitalism
( The Coast Of Yemen, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 18:50, closed)

I'd call it
The ineviteable arse rape :)

I'm not saying I have any better suggestions! Nor that there's actually anything wrong with the term 'credit crunch' I'm just wondering if it annoys anyone else as much as me :)
(p-arran-oid prolapsed here, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 19:02, closed)