What's old is new.

[Gogi]

From 'Paris was Yesterday 1925-1939':

The Stock Market Crash
'Generally, the French people's sympathy to our disaster has been polite and astonishingly sincere, considering that for the past ten years they have seen us through one of the worst phases of our prosperity--which consisted of thousands of our tourists informing them that we were the richest country in the world, that they should pay their debts, that we had made the world safe for democracy, that we were the most generous people in the world, that they should pay their debts, and that we were the richest country in the world.'