LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Like the mythical Hydra, the financial crisis is proving to be resilient. Whenever progress appears to have been made and a head is severed, another one grows in its place.

Armstrong compared today's specter of white supremacy to the mythical Hydra, whose heads, when cut off, grow two more in one’s place. “Just as white supremacy evolves over time,” she said ...

In Greek mythology, according to Britannica, the Hydra is a mythical creature with varying numbers of heads, one of which was immortal. It lived in the marshes of Lerna, near Argos, and ...

The mythical Hydra may have been able to grow one of its many heads back every time it suffered a decapitation, but there are actual creatures capable of regenerating parts of their bodies bitten ...