The first time I've read a comicbook (ok, ok graphic novel) that centered on a market crash is Wood and Donaldson's Supermarket.
Then I got my hands on an American Civil War book called Banished Children of Eve which also revolved around a market crash, gold versus greenbacks, and yes, you guessed right, greenbacks won.
Anyway, earlier today I read about a Black Sunday on Wall Street. Not knowing what a Black Sunday is, I went on and clicked the link. And this was what I read:
Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH), the 158-year-old firm that managed to survive the Civil War, the Wall Street panic of 1907, the crash of 1929, the Great Depression, and a handful of bond-trading scandals, hedge-fund collapses, and market panics, has filed for bankruptcy -- the largest bankruptcy in history. Attempts to line up a last-minute sale over the weekend crumbled as front-runners Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Barclays(NYSE: BCS) decided a Lehman takeover deal wasn't feasible without government backing.
And all I've read and heard about market crashes and what not, came rushing into my mind. Came crashing into my mind, actually. I'm broke, bankrupt, beyond saving and it's eerily comforting, a fire sale, I mean. Or a crash.
It feels like a storm coming, a cleansing, a baptism, Of fire.
Or maybe this is just a plot running rampant in my mind. I better write it down.
