At another level, market crashes constitute beautiful examples of events that we would all like to forecast. The arrow of time is inexorably projecting us toward the undetermined future. Predicting the future captures the imagination of all and is perhaps the greatest challenge.

— Didier Sornette Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003)

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