The domino is a linear cascade. The sandpile model is much better because sites toppling can cause their neighbours in every direction (usually 4) to topple as well.
When I adapt the sandpile model to finance I'm going to call it the Shitpile model. A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith
freud must be giggling in his grave.
time to pull our collective finger out and evolve to a jungian era...
~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
