Global Markets, Global Mood Swings: Why the Dow Jones Still Rules the World’s Anxiety Dreams
The Dow Jones Industrial Average: Humanity’s Favorite Slot Machine with a Flag on Top By Santiago “Santi” Vargas, International Correspondent at Large They ring a bell in New York at 9:30 a.m., and by 9:31 someone in Jakarta has already refreshed a brokerage app four times. This is the miracle of globalization: a 19th-century index—patented…