Unfortunately, there will be much greater fallout than mere embarrassment for Washington.
In the midst of remembering this sorrow, we can still see the lessons of courage that the human spirit can startle us into learning: families were shielded from even greater fallout by the heroic action of so many who put their concern for others above their concern for themselves.
The longer this bubble expands, the greater financial fallout when the thing finally pops.
As the saying goes, "the bigger they are, the harder the fall," the longer a Ponzi scheme lasts and the deeper its impact, the greater the fallout is when it crashes.
The immediate political impact will not be as great as the fallout from a similar march a year ago.
555a962f-f096-49d3-86b7-59dedc75b7f2 FOOTBALL fans are plentiful among The Economist's staff, and we have followed with great interest the fallout from the arrests of senior officials at FIFA, the sport's international governing body.
Elsewhere, the risk was much greater and the fallout potentially more damaging as teams made cuts to get under the new salary cap of $120 million per team and started handing out big contracts to meet the new stipulation for mandatory cash-spending requirements.
Fuld had collected more than $500 million in salary, bonuses and stock options during his 14-year tenure as head of Lehman, during which time he'd stewarded the firm and its 26,000 employees into a mess so great that the fallout from its collapse teetered between destabilizing and debilitating the American financial system -- ultimately falling somewhere in between.
But the most agreed-on "winner" of 2015's conferences was Bethesda, whose Sunday show was short, punchy, featured a load of great titles (DOOM! Fallout 4! Dishonored 2! And that Elder Scrolls card game that we'll all have forgotten about tomorrow!), and showcased actual gameplay.
