A resumption of capital flight and the depressed mood of middle-class Russians, not least because of corruption, are added warning signs.
Moreover, retail sales tell a slightly less gloomy story and may be better indicators of the mood of the middle class than GDP growth.
Parents send their children abroad not to learn to run their businesses more efficiently, but so they never have to come back.A future amputatedAll this is breeding a sense of stagnation that compounds the glum mood of the middle class.
The mood of the country, especially among the growing middle class, is happier than it was under Mr Moi.Much depends on which side manages to frame the debate.
After the big decline in the middle of the week, the mood of those investors was subdued, he said.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has captured this frustration with his speeches on the "squeezed middle", which skilfully snare the current mood of voters.
(Middle-period Coltrane was all over the mood of the music: Mr. Glover and his band rolled on thick, loud vamps).
Setting a 15th-century Middle English poem by William Dunbar, it closed in a mood of gorgeous calm after a gauzily beautiful opening punctuated with organ flourishes.
"It includes pieces of very different periods and places, and this shady mood is the middle point that connects all of the tracks into one EP.
The families have an overtly upper-middle-class lifestyle, making the show either aspirational or envy-provoking, depending on the mood of the viewer.
Steady, low interest rates have persisted for so long (at least in the middle range of maturities) and profits have been made in so many sectors that a general mood of calm and optimism has become pervasive.
