Some argue, for example, that the much-maligned discipline of fair-value accounting may yet bring a swift end to the crisis: if prices have overshot on the way down, they may bounce back up again pretty quickly.
In repeating a falsehood, someone may back it up with an opening line like "I think I read somewhere" or even with a reference to a specific source.
"But it may bounce back up.
"We may work back up a little bit and fail to really move to appreciably higher levels," Mr. Webb said.
"You can beat a person so far to the ground, but there comes a point where they may get back up and fight back".
But if the market slowdown continues, they may go back up, as one of the things that desperate sellers do in lean times is offer higher commissions.
"Investors may pull back up to $3 billion, no more," Mr. Soros said in an interview before a luncheon presentation in London.
Patrick O'Hara, a geologist from Prescott, Ariz., said some investors who formerly traded technology on the Nasdaq "may be looking at speculative mining ventures now, especially if it looks as if commodity prices may come back up".
Also, deep basins, resulting of the normal faults, in the Marmara Sea (Taymaz et al. 1991) may also back up this mechanism in the region.
