Sentence:  In September 2008, however, the world woke up to one massive global hangover as it became indisputably clear that the inebriate 1990s had resurfaced as twenty-first-century crises—those of laissez-faire, unregulated, <WSD>hypervirtual</WSD> capital, proliferative deficit spending, speculative and derivative-based financial investments, megacorporate bailouts, rapidly escalating unemployment, increasingly expendable labor, and the radically widening gaps between rich and poor the world over. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Having no physical or tangible presence but extreme or exaggerated influence.