# Financial crisis *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Jun 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *22 Jun 1997, 11:31* Oh, and there's another crisis that awaits Silk---fiscal bankruptcy. What happens to a society, already in chaos, with its infrastructure unmaintainable, when its wealth is suddenly co-opted to another purpose (repairing the circuitry of the Whorl or the lifeboats that make it possible to leave the Whorl? Those taluses are going to be essential! (But how to pay for them?) -alga- ---