I Survived The Flash Crash Of '13

It lasted three minutes and shaved about 150 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the blink of an eye. Near as we can tell, it all began when the Associated Press had its Twitter account hacked. An erroneous message went out that the White House was bombed. This was quickly debunked by members of the President's staff and several reporters for the AP and markets got back to normal sort of. But what was seen cannot be unseen and we got a quick reminder about how close we always are to a...