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[Alien 1] Salutations, Sentients! Our top story this picosecond -- the central exchange through which shiny stones are invested in corporate entities suffered great turmoil this week!

[Alien 2] The assignation of value rose and fell like a ride designed to induce sensations of vertigo and disorientation for purposes of amusement!

[Alien 1] To help us comprehend the cause of this upheaval, we're joined by an esteemed financial expert!

[Esteemed Financial Expert] Well -- it could be related to the arbitrary valuation of the shiny stones on other land masses! Then again, it could just be the invisible tentacle of the unhindered exchange -- assigning proper value in its own unfathomable fashion! Onlyi the one true grouping of deities know for sure!

[Alien 1] Interesting! What advice do you have for elderly sentients who have invested their shiny stones in the exchange -- in hopes of sustaining their existence and avoiding banishment to the northernmost plains -- where they will inevitably be consumed by the great and terrible beasts which roam there?

[Esteemed Financial Expert ] I'd tell them to suppress their anxiety! You see, if everyone withdraws their shiny stones from the exchange at once, the future value of the corporate entities in which we invest could decline precipitously! However, if everyone continues to believe in the value of the exchange -- then the exchange will continue to have value!

[Alien 1] I see!

[Alien 2] Coming up next: Experts explain why this is a fundamentally rational economic system!

[Alien 1] First these delightfully informative messages from the merchant class.

Tom Tomorrow, © 2015