Watch out for tipping points. The London (and now UK) riots started after the shooting death of one suspected criminal – tragic, but not normally the trigger for widespread carnage. The death of one man was the catalyst for the Arab spring uprisings. In finance, the death of one firm turned a serious US problem into the worst global recession in decades.
留意一下那些轉折點。倫敦的騷亂(如今已蔓延至英國其它地方)是在一名犯罪嫌疑人被擊斃之後開始的——那件事固然可悲,但通常不至於引發大範圍的破壞。「阿拉伯之春」大規模抗議浪潮,也是由一個人的死亡所激發的。在金融領域,一家公司(雷曼兄弟)的死亡,把美國的一個嚴重問題轉化爲全球數十年未遇的最糟糕經濟衰退。
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