Tag: high-tech trading

I don’t pretend to understand economics and finance and have a hard enough time comprehending even the most detailed and elaborate analyses in the press, though I try because it’s so important to our social affairs. The wild and historic one-day market plunge yesterday generated rampant news coverage with the basic storyline that no one really knew what caused it, though a technological glitch seemed to be the root of out-of-control frenzy. What interests me most, however, is the human factor that saved the day…