I told a friend of mine back when the stock market hit 8,000 (on it's way up to 12,000) that this would happen. You can't keep creating money on paper by manipulating the numbers so the CEO's could get real money out of it. There has to be a balanced sheet somewhere down the line, you always have a day of reckoning.
The stock market, mortgage companies, banks, and others pulling that crap knew it would happen eventually and did it any way because they had enough congressmen and senators in their pockets to save their bacon and pull they out of the fire. Who has actually gone to prison for it? NOBODY!, of big money anyway.
Personally, I would like to see the market CRASH like the 30's. Let's start over and maybe get it right with THE PEOPLE running this country.