In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. Ron Chernow
We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore. Max Brooks