Reading the stock market poetically (though I guess Engels had the idea first)
This is another urge I’ve had for some time, spurred on today by this news report about the state of the Australian stock market*. Just look at these words:
a day of carnage
its worst one-day fall since 1989
fears the slowdown is spreading across the world
dived
slumped
No sectors secure from the hammering
deeply in the red
crashed skyrocketed
tipping point
There is so little use of terms that even imply economy, don’t you think? It’s all terrifying excess.
*Are shares the same as stocks?