In 1929, years of wild debt-fuelled speculation over company stocks came to a halt with the worst economic disaster in history. In 2001, years of wild debt-fuelled speculation over technology companies that were apparently going to revolutionize the future came to a halt when most were shown to be worthless.

And, in 2008, years of debt-fuelled speculation from borrowers that just needed that 5th investment properties and the bankers that were more than willing to accommodate this to sell some more mortgage bonds, came to a grinding halt when people realized that everything propping up this speculation was based on absolute garbage.

As of making this episode, we have just lived through the fastest 30% market decline in US history – outpacing all of the examples listed above. And it's easy to think "this time is different".

But it is not...