“The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.”

—  David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 304

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