Waterloo!
In the financial circles of another world, whenever people—especially journalists who were keen on using sensational headlines to attract the public—mentioned financial crises or stock market disasters, they would subconsciously think of the Emperor of France on June 15, 1815. Then they would use that Emperor, who in fact was not very short (the one-meter-seventy-tall Emperor was actually a bit taller than the one-meter-sixty-seven "Iron Chancellor"; calling the Emperor short would embarrass our comrade of steel), to draw parallels to those companies who found themselves in the same predicament as His Majesty.
This world had neither the Battle of Waterloo nor the Emperor of France, but that didn't prevent people from using equally sensational headlines to draw attention to those poor souls who had gambled everything away at the tables.
