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Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and others credit the pauses with calming jittery investors.
But the fact that so many past market mishaps have happened during October (some famous, like the 1929 and 1987 crashes, others familiar only to insiders) makes traders jittery because they're afraid that everybody else is superstitious.
And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.
Whenever wages start to go up a bit--God forbid, workers should see their salaries jump--Wall Street gets jittery about inflation and the Fed pumps the brakes.
Next, coffee makers will admit that caffeine makes some people jittery, and Nabisco will admit that peanut butter and Ritz crackers are just a match made in heaven."