i don’t know.
things fell apart on september 17th? when paulson let lehman bros go down.
Our own financial system here was a “house of cards” ready to go down at any time with any kind of event or provocation. And maybe it could have been *extended* for a while longer, just like a druggie can get high for a bit longer — but finally — at some time, in the future, he crashes and goes into withdrawal.
So, if it were so that this *fake economic system* of huge debt that the U.S. has been carrying, pretending that it is really “prosperity” — could have been “faked a bit longer” — then maybe we wouldn’t be talking about this now.
But, still, this fake system was going to *come down* at some time, anyway...