The party is over: The coming financial reckoning

The party is over: The coming financial reckoning The party is over: The coming financial reckoning

Satyajit Das, a former banker, is the author of “Traders, Guns & Money,” “Extreme Money” and “A Banquet of Consequences: Reloaded.”

The global financial system is entering an unparallelled crisis. Investors, long conditioned to treat setbacks as buying opportunities, are failing to grasp that a convergence of forces is bringing their long-running party to an end.