They cheered his every move, they even cheered his silence and when they broke the shorts the stock climbed to $400 before sellers at last appeared. The sellers were apostates, even at those exalted levels. Don’t I know it, I called in from my hospital bed, ripping out my catheter to have some dignity and told people to take something off the table, anything.

For that I was branded a fool, a knave and a mountebank, because I didn’t see Ryan’s vision, not that it was available, and I have been on the wrong side of “yolo” ever since.