Current financial events -- my (admittedly naïve) understanding

I own a company. I drive back and forth to work at 300 km/h (185 mph) every day because I like how much time it saves me and how much more work I get done at the office.

One day I wrap my car around a lamppost. The police give me a stern lecture on how wrong it was to be driving the way I was, then buy me a new car, since if I can't drive to work a whole bunch of people will be out of a job.