![]() ![]() ![]() They’ll say that if crackpots-begging your pardon-crackpots in the guise of serious scientists can upset the world’s entire economy any time they want simply by making some cockeyed prediction, then it’s up to the world to keep such things from happening. Just as soon as this is all over, the business interests will be after your hide. ![]() And what do you think has happened to business? Johnny Public doesn’t believe you either, but there’s no sense buying new porch furniture just now, is there? Better to hang on to your money, just in case, or put it into canned goods and ammunition, and let the furniture wait. And then they buy back afterward, and sell again as soon as the market rallies, and begin the whole downward cycle all over again. ![]() The stock market has crashed three separate times, or haven’t you noticed? Sensible investors don’t really believe the world is coming to an end, but they think other investors might start to think so, and so the smart ones sell out before the panic begins-thus touching off the panic themselves. Isaac Asimov's short story, NIGHTFALL published 1941, voted the best SciFi short story by Science Fiction Writers of America in 1968, before the Nebula awards creation in 1965. After all, you know, the whole financial world’s been in a nose-dive the last few months. Isaac Asimov (/azk zmv/ born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov circa Janu April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. That anger might take shape as something serious. Say that there is-just for the sake of argument. “Yes, but what about tomorrow?” “There’ll be no tomorrow!” “But if there is. ![]()
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