But here’s the thing: the more investors prepare for this by putting large amounts of money aside to plow into a crashing market to pick up the pieces, the more likely they will be to stop the crash in its tracks.

"They have gas; we have excrement," reads an image floating around social media to advertise Wednesday's "Shit March."

Richard Painter tells Rolling Stone the surprise move is a clear-cut abuse of power.

Fast forward a few years, and private equity is frantically packaging these real estate rental properties into bonds. In order to value the real estate collateral you need some sort of appraisal, but the normal process of actually looking at properties is seen as too costly and time consuming, so market players are cutting corners by using “broker price opinions,” or BPOs.