It's a cadence you can't quite imagine.

Now, we call that a deceptive cadence, because it deceives us.

Well, the old girl went pedaling off down the drive at a hell of a speed.

I always tell my students, If you have a deceptive cadence, be sure to raise your eyebrows. Then everybody will know.

And then there was the language, the rhythmic cadence of it, reminding me of evenings spent listening to Bedouin elders recite hours long narrative poems entirely from memory.

On the eve of the last G 7 meeting in London, US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan did a startling about face by soft pedaling America s trade deficit. Market pressures appear poised to stabilize and over the longer run possibly to decrease the US current account deficit and its attendant financing requirements, he said.

Somewhere hidden in the physical gestures, the vocal cadence, the facial expressions, the eye contact, the passion, the kind of awkward, British body language, the sense of how the audience are reacting, there are hundreds of subconscious clues that go to how well you will understand, and whether you're inspired light, if you like, and desire.

But this is one of those very rare moments when we have to choose whether we're just pedaling furiously to get back to where we were a year or two ago, and a very narrow idea of what the economy is for, or whether this is a moment to jump ahead, to reboot and to do some of the things we probably should have been doing anyway.