The prepared made out with billions in this collapse and the ill prepared lost everything. You see if you had saved up a lot of cash prior to 2008, you could find yourself buying properties at 25% of their original price. Then just sit on those properties for a few years, and let them rise back up to their correct price point and you would triple or quadruple your money

Here in Brazil, we have an idiom for the people who sell at the wrong time due to FUD. We call them "lettuce hand". I found you through @thedailysneak.