' I f t i m e is money, you might as well gai n both!' Th is slogan o f a low-bu dget airline co mpany couldn 't better describe the current state of mind for addicts of a great financial casino, wh ich is itself in crisis . O n II J une 2 0 1 0 , i t imposed on Wall S treet a C I RCUIT-BREAKER system for the markets of high-frequency flash trading, in a bid to avoid a repeti tion of the lightning crash that th rew the stock exchange into a sp in on 6 M ay 201 0, at precisely 2 . 2 5 pm.
After G eneral Moto rs went bankrupt, Toyota M otors was so b adly shaken by the crisis th at it announced its immediate withdrawal from Formula 1 racing and gave up hosting J apan's
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