Will somebody please leave this poor woman alone?
Granted, there are only so many ways photographers can show a stock market in decline. Still, couldn’t the folks at Getty Images leave this poor German trader alone and find someone else to use as a stand-in for an entire continent’s economic fears? Here she is earlier today, a terse, worried look on her face ...
Granted, there are only so many ways photographers can show a stock market in decline. Still, couldn't the folks at Getty Images leave this poor German trader alone and find someone else to use as a stand-in for an entire continent's economic fears?
Here she is earlier today, a terse, worried look on her face as Germany's DAX Index plunges to its lowest point since July 2006:
Mario Vedder/Getty Images
Granted, there are only so many ways photographers can show a stock market in decline. Still, couldn’t the folks at Getty Images leave this poor German trader alone and find someone else to use as a stand-in for an entire continent’s economic fears?
Here she is earlier today, a terse, worried look on her face as Germany’s DAX Index plunges to its lowest point since July 2006:
Here she was on Sept. 30 as the DAX crossed below 6,000 points:
Here she was looking cautiously optimistic on Sept. 19 as the Dax rose on news of the Wall St. bailout:
And here she was pursing her lips disapprovingly on a particularly grim Sept. 16, in a photo that made the front page of the Financial Times:
I bet she wishes she can go back to the days of Sept. 15, when she could do her job in relative obscurity:
UPDATE: The woman’s name is Simone Wallmeyer. The Independent interviewed her Friday. “I’m afraid I get photographed because of the board rather than me,” she told the paper.
(Thanks to a sharp-eyed Passport reader for the name.)
More from Foreign Policy


Is Cold War Inevitable?
A new biography of George Kennan, the father of containment, raises questions about whether the old Cold War—and the emerging one with China—could have been avoided.


So You Want to Buy an Ambassadorship
The United States is the only Western government that routinely rewards mega-donors with top diplomatic posts.


Can China Pull Off Its Charm Offensive?
Why Beijing’s foreign-policy reset will—or won’t—work out.


Turkey’s Problem Isn’t Sweden. It’s the United States.
Erdogan has focused on Stockholm’s stance toward Kurdish exile groups, but Ankara’s real demand is the end of U.S. support for Kurds in Syria.