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These failures frightened investors, whose attempts to pull their money out led to more bank failures; the desperate attempts of surviving banks to raise cash caused both a credit crunch (pushing many businesses that had seemed financially sound only months before over the brink) and plunging stock prices, bankrupting still more financial houses.
Children were terribly frightened because of his horrid appearance.
"But I'm far too frightened to go to a schoolboard meeting."
But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.
Lewis, a Wall Street convert himself, interviews media hermit and Long-Term mastermind John Meriwether and his legion of smart "young professors" who gambled on market hyper-rationality to power their finance strategy (as Lewis explains, "things people did with money when they were frightened was an opportunity for more reasonable people to exploit").