When the market is struggling to find its footing, it is often a good time to establish or add to positions in long-term plays that have dropped a bit in price and become more attractive buys for your portfolio.
But in "Hell to Pay," the second Strange-Quinn novel, Pelecanos regains his footing; it is at once more powerful and more agile than its predecessor.
As President Obama struggles to find his political footing, it is hard to avoid the suspicion that at least some of his woes may be rooted in a historical Democratic Party presidential divide.
Their staffs do not co-operate as well as their bosses do, but if anyone can get cash out of mean governments to put peacekeeping on a firmer footing, it is Ms Malcorra.
But he added, "Once the economy is on a sound footing, it is critically important that you do pivot as quickly as possible and address the long-term fiscal situation".
Although the theory that describes the interaction of quarks and gluons is on a firm conceptual footing, it is so complicated in practice that it can take years to make a single calculation of something like the shape of a proton even using the most powerful supercomputers.
