Japan's economic crisis is intensifying again, and the chief of the IMF says "no need to panic". I will merely recite my No-Panic Contrary Rule: When they say there's "no need to panic", that is precisely the time to start to panic.
--Scott Harrison
This is just a special case of a more general law: "Believe nothing until it is officially denied."
This is often attributed to Claude Cockburne, aces father. Although in his "Discord of Trumpets" he attributes it as a saying common among the journalists of his era.
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