I used the term "animal spirits" to describe the voodoo that the arson investigator used to justify the conviction (I admit this is confusing given that "minera

I used the term "animal spirits" to describe the voodoo that the arson investigator used to justify the conviction (I admit this is confusing given that "mineral spirits" plays a role in the article). The term is often used in economics to describe the fickle and unknowable and seemingly random reasons for market motion. This arson investigation feels just as random.