If you look at the last two dozen articles matstc has submitted over the last nine months (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=matstc ) none of them substantially modify the original title, and in fact this title is taken from a subtitle in the article. If it was "worded just to get modded up" it would be unusual behaviour on matstc's part. The subtitle starts the section of the article that HN readers would be interested in.

Sorry if this is misleading. I read the article on paper and that was the pull-quote. I decided to use it because the real title 'The upside of a downturn' was not descriptive enough to me.