Is it just me, or do these market crashes always seem to happen in the autumn?
Maybe the current crisis isn’t the result of years of cheap credit and over-leveraged banks. Maybe it’s actually an atavistic response to the nights getting longer. Too many bankers go for a few days in a row without seeing daylight, and their deeply-buried lizard brain starts whispering to them that the world is ending.
» The photo, days get darker… by Mathias Erhart is from Flickr and used under a CC by-sa licence.