The economy could die! Long live the economy!

So Costello tells us the economy is doing extremely well, it's robust and booming.

Which is great, it means we can give those that would fumble the economy a go.

Which is bad, Costello will have to spin himself out of this. How can you claim a car is both fixed, and needs the fixers to keep fixing it? The finest spin doctors are on the case:

"This is like a highly engineered racing car, one miscue - you take one corner a foot too wide - and it will crash. I would say that it's highly calibrated and highly delicate at the moment. It's a proposition that says you need a good, experienced driver in control of this highly calibrated economy. I wouldn't be putting an L-plate driver in the cockpit at the moment."

So, the economy is strong, yet weak. It's highly powered, but very unstable, prone to failure, volatile, and fragile - so you need Teh Experts.

Tread lightly on our precious and mighty economy folks.