Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: [ on 05:08 PM 2/6/2007 ]

This led to the notional loss of trillions, and real loss
of billions of dollars

I think Eugen (channeling William Gibson) put it well when he called money a consensual hallucination. The question that Zainab is asking can also be restated this way:

"What happens in the cartoons when Wile E. Coyote finally realises that he is actually running on thin air?"

Udhay

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