I so hope that someone knows what they are doing! Whoever it is they will need to get a wriggle on as the landslide that is the financial crisis is waiting for no one. I doubt that the financiers will consult or adopt scientific solutions for many reasons, the most obvious being that they would not understand the underlying scientific reasoning, their expertise would not be needed, they would not be in charge and most of them are not personally suffering much yet. They are just a little singed. It's got to get much much worse before science will be asked to help.

Unless you count psychology as science-- that would be the science needed to achieve some humility in executive financial circles.

Last edited by Ellis; 02/19/09 03:45 AM.