Everyone who said the sky is falling. Someone would be right eventually. Personally I don’t think it had to happen or any analyst was correct, none of them could point to a specific cause beforehand so they’ll just retcon their guesses to say they were right. There were some sectors that were definitely due for a correction, like housing in the US, but the whole thing didn’t have to topple. It just took a complete fool in office to start thrashing about with brainless economic and geopolitical policies to push us toward a wide spanning recession.