MarketWatch's top stories of the week, Aug. 9-13
August 13, 2010 at 17:44 PM EDT
If the so-called flash crash of May 6, still an unsolved mystery three months later, taught us one thing, it was perspective. Or perhaps it numbed our senses. Either might explain why a 275-point intraday decline on the Dow can these days only nudge the VIX into the highs 20s.