A solution

El Pais has the solution:

"I'll count to three, and when you wake up, you won't remember anything that's happened, and you'll go back to buying houses and investing in the stock markets." (Own translation).

Swine response #3

"Mad cows, bird 'flu, swine flu... Wouldn't it be better if we all became vegetarians?

At work, we came up with a new conspiracy: it's the vegan mafia who set all this up.

On the crisis

New design for Rejkavik toilets.
Steve Bell on, well figure it out for yourself.
Chris Riddell on the response to the budget.

On pigs

Cartoon in today's Guardian.
Krugman points out flaws in the Republican Party criticism of the stimulus bill

Google trends (tracks the frequency of particular search terms):
Gripe porcina, gripe, influenza, flu, swine. All show dramatic upticks over the past day or two. It is interesting to note that it is not as frequently searched as it was in the bird flu crisis, but is appearing in more news articles. The first two terms are the Spanish words for swine flu and flu and are listed because the crisis is originally Mexican.

End of bulls and bears?

http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20090322elpepivin_4/XLCO/Ges/20090322elpepivin_4.jpg

Perhaps we can call these "elephant" markets....

5 year FTSE: http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EFTSE#chart2:symbol=^ftse;range=5y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

5 year DAX: http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EGDAXI#chart2:symbol=^gdaxi;range=5y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined