Paul Krugman tells it like it is...

Even if you only have a cursory interest in economic thinking you've probably heard of Paul Krugman. Krugman is an economist, author, and writes a regular Op-Ed for The New York Times and in an interview in Fortune, he gave the following answer to the question: Why [is this not going to be like] the Great Depression?

[...]I think we know more than we did then, and just the fact that we have a big federal government is a stabilizing factor. But the current problem is still pretty awesome.

the current problem is still pretty awesome

I don't know about you, but having become familiar with "pretty awesome" used to indicate something that's really good, I had a hard time wrapping my head around that sentence.