On the other hand, even Wall Street, ruthless cutthroat capitalists trading by the microsecond in the “city that never sleeps,” comes to a cease-fire every day at 4:00 p.m. sharp, so that brokers can sleep at predictable hours every night without getting too badly ambushed by competitors pushing toward a sleepless equilibrium. In this sense, the stock market is more a sport than a war. Scaling up this logic results in a potent argument for the role of government.
