http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/06/25/baby-no-cry-or-the-disassociative-fugue-of-the-crisis/ Trends, forecasts, scenarios, opinions on the future Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/06/25/baby-no-cry-or-the-disassociative-fugue-of-the-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Mark Johnson Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:05:00 +0000 http://www.competitivefutures.com/blog/?p=889#comment-355 Interesting and true...but it's a very simple mechanism. You see that all your buddies at the plant got pink slips, you're not surprised at new unemployment claims. The economy had been waiting for the GM domino to fall for 6 solid months, with commentary nightly on why we shouldn't let them go bankrupt, why we should, how they should restructure, what parts will be sold off, and which interest groups will and will not be able to strike a deal. It tends to make the actual event anticlimactic. Interesting and true…but it's a very simple mechanism. You see that all your buddies at the plant got pink slips, you're not surprised at new unemployment claims. The economy had been waiting for the GM domino to fall for 6 solid months, with commentary nightly on why we shouldn't let them go bankrupt, why we should, how they should restructure, what parts will be sold off, and which interest groups will and will not be able to strike a deal. It tends to make the actual event anticlimactic.

]]> http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/06/25/baby-no-cry-or-the-disassociative-fugue-of-the-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Mark Johnson Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:05:00 +0000 http://www.competitivefutures.com/blog/?p=889#comment-288 Interesting and true...but it's a very simple mechanism. You see that all your buddies at the plant got pink slips, you're not surprised at new unemployment claims. The economy had been waiting for the GM domino to fall for 6 solid months, with commentary nightly on why we shouldn't let them go bankrupt, why we should, how they should restructure, what parts will be sold off, and which interest groups will and will not be able to strike a deal. It tends to make the actual event anticlimactic. Interesting and true…but it's a very simple mechanism. You see that all your buddies at the plant got pink slips, you're not surprised at new unemployment claims. The economy had been waiting for the GM domino to fall for 6 solid months, with commentary nightly on why we shouldn't let them go bankrupt, why we should, how they should restructure, what parts will be sold off, and which interest groups will and will not be able to strike a deal. It tends to make the actual event anticlimactic.

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