David Pogue, the technology columnist for The New York Times, recently made an observation that really rang true with me.
It is hard to exaggerate just how extraordinary each new day seems. The mortgage crisis in the United States may have provided the spark, but the floor of the world’s economic forest was already jammed with dry tinder: too much debt, too many banks carrying too much risk, too little savings and too many imbalances throughout the global economic system.
