The Aston Martin is just a sideshow

Over the years, we?ve been told by solemn-faced experts that life as we know it is about to end. Strange to report, then, that we?ve managed to survive communism, particle accelerators, fascism, asteroids, Cuba, bird flu, global warming, terrorism, nuclear war, various tsunamis and Aids, and now we are going to be finished off by Fannie Mae. I don?t even know what Fannie Mae is. Apparently, it?s not a bank and it?s not a building society, but it seems to have been buying mortgages and debts from various institutions. And then, one day, it appears to have woken up and thought: ?Oops.?