Ben D. Kritz
DESPITE the fact that market analysis (and economics in general) is much better at predicting the past than it is the future, every pundit and his grandmother has spent the days since the financial market bloodbath on Monday trying to answer the question, “What happens next?” While the answer may not be very encouraging for places like China, the US, or regional neighbors like Malaysia and Indonesia, the outlook for now is perhaps not so worrisome for this country.