During the 2000s, for example, the world's central banks thought everything was fine — they made up nicknames for the period of stability that lasted from the late 1980s to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Alan Greenspan of the US Federal Reserve called it a 'Goldilocks Economy' — not too hot, not too cold. Mervyn King of the Bank of England called them the 'NICE times', an age of non-inflationary continuous expansion. Probably the most commonly used name was the 'Great Moderation'. All the while, a huge debt bubble was building up, with house prices spiralling out of control.

— The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies (Page 134)