Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Sherlock Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”
-From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1892 short-story Silver Blaze
-From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1892 short-story Silver Blaze
You may think of the above dialogue, when you consider what has happened to the 662-page report on the causes of the Great Recession released in late January by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Some people were hoping the report would make a big splash, and focus national attention on the need to curb the excessive speculation in derivatives, for example, that helped bring about the Great Recession of 2008.
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