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One crucial ingredient in all of today's explanations of the sell-off (and we are now entering the putatively substantive part of the column, so watch your heads) was, of course, "interest-rate concerns."
A cover editorial says the crash of Asian markets shouldn't have prompted the U.S. sell-off: Asian markets have only a minor impact on the U.S. economy.
USA Today says the event was "the most widespread reaction to the spreading Southeast Asia currency crisis," but doesn't say a further word explaining that crisis or how it caused the sell-off.
On the contrary, thanks to the spread of the Internet and the rise to prominence of CNNfn and, above all, CNBC, the sell-off occurs with real-time commentary, real-time commentary that is already, almost before the fact, labeling what's occurring as "a sell-off," a "prelude to a correction," or "the first prick of the tech-stock bubble."
In other words, it would be a mistake to dismiss all U.S. investors' worries about the impact of the Hong Kong sell-off on U.S. companies as the fearful bleatings of people who, having read too many silly headlines about globalization, suddenly decided--since everyone else seemed to have decided, too--that the sky was falling.