A depressing slipup, or economical with the truth?

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Last Modified: 04 Feb 2009
By: Faisal Islam

Gordon Brown talks about taking action to bring the world out of depression, a word seized on by the Conservatives and a slip that may prove costly.

Mr Brown's spokesman said afterwards that he didn't think the world was in depression, despite what he said during Prime Minister's questions today.

But after the Prime Minister's warnings about the dangers of talking down the British economy, his use of the dreaded "D" word is bound to come back to haunt him. Here's our economics correspondent Faisal Islam.