A crisis

Dow Jones Industrial index 1900-2008

[Dow Jones Industrial Average Index from 1900 until today on a logarithmic scale; chart courtesy of StockCharts.com, click the image for details.]

Now that there is so much talk about the (financial) crisis I see that the word crisis of course shares its etymology with one of my most favorite words: critique.
Come on folks, let’s have a closer look. Let’s be critical about the “crisis”.

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3 Responses to “A crisis”

  1. rattus says:

    I’d like to share two more DJI charts, as humus for critique or whatever (please excuse the junkiness):

    Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1998 until 2008
    10 years Dow Jones Industrial Average courtesy of Google

    Dow Jones Industrial Average from 2007 until 2008
    The last 1.5 years Dow Jones Industrial Average courtesy of Google

  2. michael ridsdale says:

    on globalisation ..

    we are going to change the world ,

    we are going to make it all the same .

  3. rattus says:

    michael — Interesting remark. I see you are referring to the second law of thermodynamics. I wonder what role exponential growth is playing here, and whether it actually is. Isn’t it all the same?