'Twas Ever Thus

Boom and Bust cycles with the rubes paying high prices for overvalued property? Ghost towns? Read The Worst Hard Time for the exact same story with the overplanting of the ephemeral great plains farm towns. And then hop over to BuzzFlash for this story about a similar mass overbuilding and overfarming crisis in Spain. Not to get all morbid on y'all but there's a really bad time a'comin.