Well, in case you were convinced by news today that yesterday’s stock market nosedive was just a computer error, trader typo, or some other non-panicky event, here’s NBC’s Brian Williams (on Letterman last night) to talk you back into investing in gold and shotgun shells:
I look at the photos from Greece yesterday, and listen to Williams, and I remember back to this moment from the spring of 2000, when I was watching an episode of Nightline. It was about the government in Afghanistan–somebody called the “Taliban”–and how their extremist practices included destroying huge ancient Buddhist statues. I had this sense of human loss, as I watched the video of the statues’ demolition, but it wasn’t until about sixteen months later that I thought about that episode of Nightline again. I hope we don’t end up having similar flashbacks to Greece aflame, but there doesn’t seem to be much reason for optimism that this is a short-term problem in Europe.
Enjoy the weekend, folks.
