http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/10/11/do1104.xml
"This week, I spoke to Mr Ruffer again. He likes comparisons. He made
one with the weather. If you are in a hurricane, he said, you are
rightly extremely frightened - you may lose everything, you may even
die. But if you are a meteorologist, a hurricane, though extreme, is a
recognisable phenomenon. It is part of weather. It will pass.

The same is true with a financial crisis. It cannot be avoided, but
people will suffer more or less, depending on how good was their
protection before it began, how quick was the emergency help when it
happened, and how well organised was the recovery. People felt so
upset about Hurricane Katrina not just because it was a terrible
natural event, but because the response was inadequate. So with the
credit crunch."


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