Word: panic
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...then starts talking about climbing the tree. And these are not the best of days. Under the stress of a global financial disaster and juiced up on the amphetamine of 24-hour cable chatter, America's axis of money and influence is jittery and nervous and primed for panic...
...trust, belief and confidence. When surging, these spirits can turn a slump into a boom and a boom into a bubble, but once they shatter, it's a devilish job trying to resurrect them. That's because other animal spirits rise up to take their place: doubt, fear, even panic...
Sounds awfully logical. So why haven't we stuck it to these guys? Because we're afraid they'll panic. "Unfortunately, we've built a system where if you hammer those guys hard, you're going to have a global credit collapse," said Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and whose blog, Baseline Scenario, has become essential reading for crisis buffs. The Federal Reserve and Treasury left creditors at Lehman Brothers adrift in September, and the repercussions were so dire that regulators resolved not to let such...
...Industrial Park, home to many of the island's flagship tech firms, most workers are taking unpaid leave at least one day a week. Ryan Wu, chief operating officer of the job-search website 1111 Job Bank, says conditions at Hsinchu have never been so dire. "There's extreme panic right now," Wu says...
Apparently it took 80 minutes for Princeton's administration to send out campus-wide alerts that there was a gunman on campus. Although nothing actually happened, it did send the insular little Jersey town into a panic. The incident raises the question of whether Harvard's text message system will actually work in the event of an emergency, but hell, FlyBy likes Drew Faust's odds against a gunman any day. She'll be serving up a real nasty Republic of Suffering for you, wretched gun-bearer. Just...