Following a prominent fund's "breaking of the buck"--that is, a decline in its net asset value below par--in September, investors began to withdraw funds in large amounts from money market mutual funds that invest in private instruments such as commercial paper and certificates of deposit.
The best example of this is the advent of print: About 40 years after Gutenberg, as paper printing and paper folding took hold, books became portable instruments of a capitalist explosion of activity.