These capitalists are of course more modern than the traditional warrior caste in the sense that they fight in all seasons, not just summer. But industrial capital is also to some degree archaic in so far as it cannot turn a profit unless it stays put somewhere for a while. Industrial capital can be removed from one place and reinvested in another, but not instantaneously. It too is grounded. No such constraints apply to Financial Capital which, like the priests of old, enjoys instantaneous communication with the divine, or in this case, with profit.
Financial capital is pure speed and pure, immaterial profit.
It makes instantaneous judgments on the values of national policies. If it doesn't like what it sees, it leaves, at the speed of bytes, leaving catastrophic consequences in its wake. In December 1994, billions of dollars were removed from Mexico in a matter of hours. The peso collapsed, interest rates were put sky high, over a million small businesses failed, unemployment is rampant, widespread hunger and malnutrition have returned, crime rates are alarming and kidnappings routine. It can happen in rich countries too.