"There is an issue in the medium term about people who have saved under the aegis of certain rules.
It is looking for annual pretax profit of 15 billion Swiss francs ($14 billion) in the "medium term," about 50 percent ahead of the current pace.
"There is a balance between equipment on the one hand and manpower on the other, and there is a challenge there for the medium term about the balance between equipment spending versus manpower spending," he adds.
It also states that fiscal viability will require a continuation of funding for most wage and non-wage costs of Afghanistan's security sector over the medium term, about $7 billion per year from 2014 through 2021.
They are about nebulous worries for the medium-term future, not about a developing country's crying need, here and now, to improve its people's living standards.
But Brown-Darling (Brarling?) even managed to sound optimistic about the medium-term future.
"There is a great deal of uncertainty about the medium-term outlook for inflation," he wrote.
That seems to be a pretty good illustration of the extent of uncertainty about the medium-term outlook.
That pattern has been repeated over the past few days and seems to be a pretty good illustration of the extent of uncertainty about the medium-term outlook.
Until they started to play hardball in this way, Mr Obama had been deplorably insouciant about the medium-term picture, repeatedly failing in his budgets and his state-of-the-union speeches to offer any path to a sustainable deficit.
