If so many people weren't hurt by that stuff, much of it would actually be funny...<<<<
no it's not funny at all, we have experienced something similar, but not to the huge degree, to the dutch tulipmania or the south sea bubble, it has fractured a lot of lives and has ruined a lot of dreams.
what we need to bottom this sucker out is a bear on the cover of rolling stone (just kidding), time, newsweek, and the death of equities on biz week.