There's a parallel here with the 2008 crash where wallstreet was creating value out of nothing by prepackaging high risk mortgages to make them appear low risk. I wasn't paying too much attention at the time so I don't know what exactly made that bubble burst, but that was also a case of the entire economy possibly crashing because of some very shady antics.

If the fed does another bailout as in 2008, we could be seeing massive inflation. Don't go crazy, but brace for the possibility.