Stressful times for world economy as hedge funds ponder options

Unsettled markets react to a lethal mixture of rising commodity prices, persistent political unrest in the MENA region, knock-on effects of the Japanese earthquake/tsunami and other economic crises.

Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him…

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

Meditation XVII by