The Night the Clock Stopped The market, a colossal machine that typically operates with precise, second-by-second efficiency, seemed to have its core gears jammed by an invisible hand on the night of October 11th. Time did not stop, but the anchors of pricing, the scales of value, and the beliefs sustaining millions of investors underwent a torturous ordeal—teetering on the brink of collapse before painfully reforming. When future historians look back, the media may label it an "epic plunge,"...
