I find it amazing that people appear to talk about the economy in a similar fashion to the weather - that it happens, and is unpredictable in the long term...
Pathetic really, we 'created' the worldwide economy, therefore it is within our power to control it.
As eccentric a statement as that is, through a global coordination across all sectors, it is THEORETICALLY possible to reverse this - all that would be left is the damage caused thus far.
We really do have a nest of boneheads running this planet...