Warnings From The Market's Mount Vesuvius
Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com,
“Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin’d,Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o’er mankind”
– Homer, The Iliad
When Mount Vesuvius Blew
Everything was just the way it was supposed to be in Pompeii on August 24, 79 A.D. The gods had bestowed wealth and abundance upon the inhabitants of this Roman trading town. Things were near perfect.