Damage Control

Doug Mills/ The New York Times

So it looks like Mr. Bernanke put on his reassuring head today in order to calm the crowd that's wondering what to think of yesterday's sell-off. It was a computer glitch...yeah, that's the ticket, a computer glitch. It's the fault of the Shanghai index...yeah, that's the ticket, the Shanghai index. Or, of course it could be that weak U.S. manufacturing report....yeah, that's the ticket.