^Quite, people forget that the last crash started in 1989 and was not finished until 1996. And that crash did not have 'helpful' aspects, such as the Credit Crunch, causing bailouts of America's 5th Biggest Investment Bank and the UK's biggest Mortgage lender; record commodity (inc. oil) prices and truly amazing levels of personal debt!
On the basis of it being merely as bad as last time, think about buying in 2014...