Watch out for tipping points. The London (and now UK) riots started after the shooting death of one suspected criminal – tragic, but not normally the trigger for widespread carnage. The death of one man was the catalyst for the Arab spring uprisings. In finance, the death of one firm turned a serious US problem into the worst global recession in decades.
留意一下那些轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。倫敦的騷亂（如今已蔓延至英國(guó)其它地方）是在一名犯罪嫌疑人被擊斃之后開(kāi)始的——那件事固然可悲，但通常不至于引發(fā)大范圍的破壞。“阿拉伯之春”大規(guī)模抗議浪潮，也是由一個(gè)人的死亡所激發(fā)的。在金融領(lǐng)域，一家公司（雷曼兄弟）的死亡，把美國(guó)的一個(gè)嚴(yán)重問(wèn)題轉(zhuǎn)化為全球數(shù)十年未遇的最糟糕經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退。
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