Multiple anxieties
On a recent episode of Marketplace, after another
day of "volatility" in the stock market, host Kai Ryssdal asked New York bureau
chief Heidi Moore about that particular day's anxiety, apparently caused by
untrue rumors about a French bank. Moore pointed out that "all you really need
to destroy even the strongest bank is a rumor." In the same interview, Ryssdal
asked what might take us back to the panic of 2008. Moore's answer was