Lots of measurement and benchmarking issues come up, particularly, in the modern complex world of business and commerce that await proper quantifications and standardization with precision and rigor. Many would have read how floating of risky financial products, not tractable by the established norms of controllable behavioral norms, jeopardized functioning of markets and the global economy.
Few would have thought that the effects of the sub-prime crisis will question the survival of the Euro Currency and would threaten the entire European region to fall into a severe recession. Meanwhile, in our domestic economy though, we have largely been successful in mitigating the effects of exogenous shocks and contagion risks of the international crisis.