There are suckers on all sides - there are people who have been renting the last 10 years thinking the sky would fall, and paying for their landlords retirement.
There are people who bought cos their neighbours were making money and they were not, so expected a free lunch too.
There were people who didn't understand the financial contracts they were signing up for, and others whose aspirations went beyond their means.
And there are an awful lot of people who made an awful lot of money along the way.
Every run on an asset creates winners and loosers - it's the way markets work.
It been like that since the dawn of capitalisim, and everytime history repeats itself, people tend to look the other way, and ignore reality for while it lasts.
There is always hair pulling and blaming afterwards, but while the show went on, nobody really wanted to complain.
Things are never as good as people make out, or never as bad too.