With prices rising and unemployment soaring, families, pensioners and businesses already know it's hurting.
His tastes are harder to pin down: seemingly willing to turn his hand to whatever his clients desire, he builds folksy cottages in the Chilterns with one hand, while erecting soaring glass totems in China with the other.
That sent the Swiss franc soaring once again – it initially leapt an unprecedented 30% against the euro.
Like a freak storm, the eurozone crisis has swept over this land, leaving despair and destruction in its wake: almost no household has not felt the effects of wage and pension cuts (slashed by an average 40%), soaring taxes and unemployment that at 26.7% is the highest in the EU and unprecedented in Greece's post-war history.
The most affluent family in Britain, headed by Major General Gerald Grosvenor, owns 77 hectares (190 acres) of prime real estate in Belgravia, London, and has been a beneficiary of the foreign money flooding in to the capital's soaring property market in recent years.
Soaring joblessness – at nearly 28%, Greece has the highest unemployment rate in the eurozone – has also meant that growing numbers are no longer covered by free healthcare.
The traditional history of the Human League has them discovering a couple of dancers in Crazy Daisy nightclub, recruiting them as singers and soaring to fame and fortune in the 1980s as a consequence, with Don't You Want Me the No 1 hit to seal the deal.
With worsening levels of inequality and soaring population growth across Africa, Kaberuka calls on the biggest lenders to African countries to refocus their efforts on providing services and opportunities for the poor.
For Fine Gael, Lee's decision has been another major fillip in a year that has seen them soaring in the opinion polls.
More importantly, it will allow residents of these towns to commute into Edinburgh, where they can hold on to jobs without facing the soaring costs of house purchase or rents in the city.
But with the number of attacks soaring, the diplomatic achievements have not been enough to appease Ghani's critics.
