Ten years onward from the Great Recession, people are growing nervous again. October 2018 was particularly rife with talk of calamity, as shares repeatedly dropped and markets reliably tumbled. In a time of normalized volatility — whether political or financial — conversations concerning the future often pose the question: When is it going to come crashing down?

According to Phil Stein, there are a number of ways an institutional corporate crisis might rear its ugly head once more.