This was my perspective on it, too. Millions of people kicked out of their homes. There weren't suddenly less homes or that many more people. The financial priests just declared that to appease some evil omen, people needed to lose their homes. And so it was done. The entire modern world is propped up on a mountain of bullshit, as far as I'm concerned.
That's a two-way street, though. The modern world is built on bullshit, but bullshit makes the world go round, now. Hell the biggest single risk of the 2008 crisis was that banks and businesses stopped believing in the system: businesses couldn't take loans to cover day-to-day expenses, and that could have, by itself, sunk us into a Great Depression. People stopped believing in it, and so the world almost stopped too. Had they not finally intervened to prop the whole thing up, it might well have happened. And then where would we be? Wishing for better bullshit, maybe.
But damn, it's really the fire-and-brimstone crowd here today. If it gets any more apocalyptic in here the doomsday preppers will start talking shop. Granted, I'd feel much better about the economy if its stewards weren't partisan hacks at best(?), and wildly incompetent narcissists at worst. But the economy seems fine for now, and one of the advantages of the stock market being disconnected is it doesn't hurt us so much (And I mean that, incidentally; it wasn't the stock market crashing that caused people to lose their homes or businesses to sink, it's lending. The stock market made things worse, but it just followed the other problems, not caused them. The economy has gotten a lot more complex since the Great Depression, and stock markets alone do not a Depression make, at least anymore).
On a less Ron-Paul-lite note, I've a thought I heard about a month ago which, with the signing of Trump's only achievement, is now coming into its relevance: what's next? All I heard about Republican plans were "Repeal Obamacare, reform taxes", and having failed outright at one and barely passed (1 vote!) a watered-down version for the other, what happens next? They don't seem to have any plans for Year 2. I'm hearing some weird "Next year will be bipartisan" nonsense from
McConnell and
Trump, and there are the vague "Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill" pronouncements, but those are as undefined as they are DOA. But what is their thing? Are they gonna try "be bipartisan or it'll make you look bad" on Democrats, maybe?