Lowever obsessively devoted we may have been to our jobs on or about power systems we can scarcely have failed to notice the financial world's current upheaval. Horny-handed toilers like me may have been struck by the way deifiers of markets and market forces have seemed unmoved by the apparent impotence, or at least deficiency, of their gods, and by the possible inadequacy of market solutions to what a mere engineer might regard as mainly technical problems. A happy hunting ground for inventive businessmen. Much as one may marvel at the ingenuity of the financial fraternity in devising new business processes and products, often highly successful for a while even if not permanently, one cannot but notice that some of the ingenuities have been blamed for the 'credit crunch' and other crisis manifestations that have so upset the workings of our world's economic system.
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