Cross-examining Mr McKay, lawyers acting for Transocean got him to agree that Deepwater Horizon had been "a very safe operating rig" but only "up until the accident".
It evokes an image of central bankers huddled comfortably on the safe shoreline as they look out into the horizon and see the dangerous, unstable virtual currencies approaching.
It certainly makes one question the folks who are advising her, even considering the fact that these days many Generation-Y members have their retirement money parked in super-safe money-market funds and supposedly safe fixed-income instruments, despite a 30-year or greater investment time horizon.
The weakening in the U.S. labor market and on onslaught of discussion surrounding what the Fed might do beyond the completion this month of QE2 has set the yen up once again as a safe haven with investors realizing that monetary tightening in the U.S. remains as distant a speck on the horizon as it does in Japan.