The Titanic took appoximately tow hours and forty minutes from its initial iceberg colission to its foundering. The ship's band - hoping to help keep passengers calm - continued to play (waltzes and ragtime numbers) for nearly all of that time only stopping less than thirty minutes prior to the ship going under. Today financial markets also keep 'playing'amid threats of sinking economic prospects.
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