On second thought, I’m not sure if this is actually a good thing. Divorces are like market corrections. If it needs to happen, then the more quickly it happens (and is over), the better. The Great Depression wasn’t great because of the magnitude of the market correction, but because of its length, and the current recession is bigger for the fact that the necessary market correction, which would’ve burst the housing bubble, was delayed and delayed until the Fed couldn’t hold it back any more.