When I was a child my favourite cartoon program was the Looney Tunes. Bugs was my favourite, but in constant play were the Roadrunner cartoons, in which the starving (and very clever) Wile. E. Coyote would set out to get himself supper by catching the roadrunner. Unlucky Wile never managed to succeed, but in trying he inevitably wound up blowing himself up, getting hit by large objects, or falling to his death.
The current economic and market situation reminds me of how Wile would die from falling. On occasion he'd race off a huge cliff (apparently he always chased the roadrunner right next to the Grand Canyon). He'd run off the cliff in a straight horizontal line, as if there was still ground under his feet, and then come to a stop in mid air. He'd look around, then he'd look down. Seeing the mile of dead air beneath him, he'd gulp and immediately plummet to the ground, where he'd wind up as a pancake.
In the world of cartoon physics, the law of gravity didn't take effect until you realized you'd been breaking it. Once you did, whoosh!
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