When I concluded [1]The Homeownership Saga (watch for the movie version from Michael Bay) by comparing the political and policy questions to the Great Depression, some readers thought I was being too melodramatic. It gives me no comfort to be able to say "I told you so." [2]
Links:
[1] http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/foreeclosing_america_4_vicious_and_virtuous_circles
[2] http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2007/07/countrywide-hom.html