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by roenxi 682 days ago
We don't know if it was a panic attack though. The journalist could just be describing pessimism.

> “I have this feeling that the bottom is gonna fall out,” Fox told me.

Take this quote for example. If we take even a mildly evidence based approach, this is rational. Sometimes the bottom does just fall out of the economy. It happens around once a decade. It is entirely healthy to consider spending large amounts of money as potentially risky and consider the possible consequences.