1.   I shall also argue that crises have a material basis, which relates to the periodic replacement and expansion of fixed capital.

2.   Just as the current crisis has a distinctly familiar ring to it, so too do the solutions being offered.

3.   This crisis has politicians scratching their heads and wondering what to do.

4.   This financial crisis had a much greater impact on Main Street.

5.   The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.

6.   Second, it ignores the extent to which the oil crisis had its roots in previous developments.

7.   Any crisis will have a negative effect on the market.

8.   But currency crises have a way of gathering steam.

9.   But the crisis has had at least one positive effect.