Paulson is renowned for betting against an overheated housing market before the financial crisis netted his fund $15bn and cemented his personal fortune, estimated by Forbes at $11.2bn.
All of these social groups will point out that the recession was caused in part by greedy developers who overheated the property market and hence the entire economy thanks also to loans from their chums in the main Irish banks.
There was one in every breath – from a penny off a pint to another disastrous help-to-buy boost to an already overheated housing market, when building is at its lowest for a century.
No matter how you want to view GDP growth, labor markets, or consumption growth, it's clear that not only are we nowhere near that overheated economy stage, it doesn't even look like we're remotely close.
In a note this week titled, "Inflate This," analysts at Keefe Bruyette & Woods questioned whether the Fed's tendency to put a shiny gloss on the recovery makes sense: The traditional rationale for [lower interest rates] is to cool an overheated economy.
Spending days cooped up in an overheated minibus with a random assortment of strangers ticking off the sights ought to be a recipe for disaster, and yet some of my happiest travel experiences have been group holidays.
Indeed, the residents believe communal living – popular in cities such as Berlin – is the antidote to an increasingly overcrowded, overheated world.
Liberated from the need to jostle through overcrowded and overheated shops, I will have more free time.
"Just one thing will really change for us on 1 January," says Horia Vernescu, nursing a cappuccino in an overheated cafe on an otherwise bone-chilling December day in Bucharest's central university district.
He claimed the blaze was sparked by overheated cables setting light to stacks of toilet roll.
Likewise, Liberal Democrat warnings of "mob rule" look overheated from the streets of Lerwick, unless one measures witch-hunts by Twitter hashtags alone.
