Who would be the terrorists? The people who started the rumors about Bear Stearns and started the bank collapse? The hedge funds (or secret society on Wall St.) that control the stock market/housing market/commodities market? Computer programmers who setup automatic trading, so when a stock fell 5% in a day, it started a cascade of selling, nobody was buying a free-falling stock, but more and more price triggers automatically came into play.
We haven't seen econo-terrorists yet, even though the FBI should have been paying attention to them instead of the nice eco-terrorists that haven't done anything in the past few years. If China declared economic war on us by hording cheap oil, stop importing any US goods (except for ones it can't make), and call us to pay back the debt.
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