Ann: CYBG PLC Third Quarter 2019 Trading Update, page-181

In my long-made observations, the common feature that these prognosticators of pending market disaster share is that they are all highly articulate and all sound incredibly smart and sage-like [*]. Not just that, but they all cite some kind of economic statistics that provide a sense of veracity to their arguments.

And dark storm clouds are used at times to convey the required sense of foreboding:



[*] As someone - someone with an impeccable, long-term investing track record - once told me, "Pessimists get to sound smart; Realists get to make money."