One lesson from the major handset downturns of 2001 and 2008 is that practically all major component and infrastructure names got sucked into a vortex of major declines.
France, the euro zone's second-largest economy, finds itself in the middle: not in recession, but at risk of being sucked into the Mediterranean vortex.
However, at a speech Friday at a legal conference in Los Angeles, she talked about how she had been "sucked into the black hole, the vortex" of death penalty cases 18 years ago when she represented Smith.