Nuts & bolts

So the US has the world's biggest, deepest capital market. It just happens to be run from the world's biggest insane asylum. It all looks so orderly from the outside. The skyline seen from the New Jersey approaches. Or Big Board trading lined up in neat rows of charts and numbers in the paper. Yet beneath it all is a roiling mass of humanity and machinery. Anyone who has been stuck under the East River in a moldering subway car waiting for a 'track fire' ahead to be extinguished is familiar