Gloomy tales best rx promotions In fact, the speech is even more confused than that. At the beginning of the speech, Cameron attacks the policies of politicians who thought “that we had ended boom and bust”. Obviously, we haven’t. But then he makes no attempt at all to explain what government policy should be during boom years, and how that policy should differ during recessions. And finally he gets into the thicket of monetary policy, explaining that he essentially needs to abolish boom and bust himself, else none of his policies are going to work.