This one is taking so long because it "took so much"! Unlike other "economic downturns", the money changers waited a little too long. (I think they also missed a step, not fully appreciating the true nature of a global marketplace. there is also the high likelihood that time wasn't on their side: they let their swindles and scams get ahead of their ability to cover-up and hide their criminal activities and various cons. Simply put: They let their asses (greed and hubris) override their limited brains.)

    This one really got out of hand. And, since there is nobody who can or will step up to the plate and do real damage control, the problem(s) will take longer to actually "self-correct", because so many of the players are so far out of sync with capitalist market systems and methodologies. (If the con artists who engineered this thing had been just a little less greedy, we;d have probably seen some real forward motion in the economies of the U.S. and most other countries. What the whole thing is analogous to is a baby's first discovery of it's own feces - It doesn't look for toilet paper or a clean diaper, or even ask for a pottie training seminar; it plays with the stuff...Because it is uncertain; it produced it; and, it doesn't know any better.)