prime threat hovering over a society of general well-being. - John Kenneth Galbraith

In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading asyndicate that was driving the market down.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.