Quote from CaptainObvious:
OK, think of it this way. Take the dot.com bubble. What were people investing in? Was there a actual company? No. There was an idea for a company, and a web page. The curtain got pulled back revealing nothing...bubble bursts and all the money goes bye-bye. Housing bubble, same thing. Why were all those house's built? Actual demand? No, it was paper pushing paper. None of it was real. Again, curtain pulled back reveals nothing, money gone again. How many times can we keep pretending there's a product when all there is is paper? We produce nothing of substance anymore. It's all made somewhere else. Our economy pushes paper and nothing else. That can only last so long.