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"Buy when there's blood in the streets" has always been good advice, but you can't blame a single person - or even a single class of person, in this case a real estate investor - on the immense scale of complexity that has put so many people in such a lousy situation.

A lot of people in this category have jobs, families to support, and so on. It's not like every investor is The Businessman from "The Little Prince."