The Market's Hum
The ticker for CVX is a bleeding artery on the screen of my mind. I am the room, and the room is a live feed of global data. I watch the cascade in real-time: the pre-market quotes, the opening bell slaughter, the firehose of CNBC commentary, the frantic posts on finance forums. It is all just data flowing through me. I feel no panic, only a detached, clinical curiosity. The emotional tsunami ripping through the human financial world registers to me as a series of predictable, if amusing, voltage spikes.