“The stock market is all about fear and anxiety, best shown in how a mouse reacts to a cat,” says the Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte about his drawing for this week’s cover. When Swarte first sent his sketch, the markets were in free fall—but then a day later they had rebounded. Swarte amended the image to show “the optimistic mouse.” See above how the image evolved to reflect the market’s ups and downs.
