Damus

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This is how I remember September 11, 2001.

I was at my desk in Reykjavik, Iceland, working on some stupid macro virus, whose name I have forgotten. In the background, I had a web browser page showing the NASDAQ before-opening futures from Yahoo! Finance. They were comfortably up.

Suddenly, the chart CRATERED. The price didn't just fall down fast - it went from "significantly up" to "limit down" VERTICALLY. That's when I knew that something Really Bad (tm) had happened in the USA. It was several minutes before reports started appearing on CNBC, CNN, etc.