What a tirade of mindless drivel!!! It " IS " market forces at work!!! The excesses of the sub-prime mortgage debacle are being wrung out of the market. It is reaching into many different areas of the world market place, causing a slow-down in the world economy. A slow down in consumption makes for surplusses, and depresses demand. The economy was over-heated so it is cooling off. But the problem, once thought in the beginning to be nothing to worry about, has grown to the point where very few are calm. Almost everyone is heading for the exits, either from fear or being forced out due to loan recalls. Get used to it. After 48 years as an investor I've seen it more times than I'd like to remember. It will pass but not for a while yet. Any press realeases will come to nothing. Remedies last but a day, and the trend resumes going down. Sit tight and enjoy life. This is better than a circus.