Photo Gallery Images of a Crisis?
Pretty much every stock market story is illustrated with some trader pulling out his hair. This time around, given the global nature of the story, things got a bit more interesting...
... and intense. But one can only take pictures of so many upset traders. And there were a million of them. Until ...
... Monday at least, when these two DAX traders started giggling like school girls. But how else can one photograph a financial crisis?
A bull hanging from a computer on the DAX trading floor, for example?
A sinking ship (it's a sculpture) off of Canary Wharf in London perhaps?
Or, also in London, a poster of sharks as a backdrop to some guy walking in the financial district.
Ambulance. Times Square. News ticker announcing the US bailout. Get it?
This one is especially painful. German rail was planning on going public this month, but the cratering stock market put those plans on hold. Clear from the image, right?
German mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate was, ummm, looking for the emergency exits until...
...it was bailed out by the German government.
And last week, judging by the photos available, the weather was pretty lousy across the globe -- like here in Tokyo...
...and here in London, in front of the Bank of England. But when it comes to umbrella images...
...this picture takes first prize.
Ouch.
A bear biting into a bull. How apt.
In a similar vein, a demonstration by an environmental group in Berlin provided this image, taken just as the German cabinet was meeting on the financial crisis.
A businessman leaving New York's financial district.
Life saver for the German economy, anyone?
And finally, no series of images would be complete without this tipped over bicycle in Iceland, presumeably symbolizing that country's tipped over economy.
