You have valid points, but the boom and bust just exacerbates an already bad situation by compounding the natural disaster with a market primed to fall already.

You have valid points, but the boom and bust just exacerbates an already bad situation by compounding the natural disaster with a market primed to fall already. So it took a bad situation, and made it even worse. As to all how this is going to play out, who knows? I'm not as optimistic as others that it's just going to be a couple months and suddenly everything is back to normal.