What's your purpose here? To get everyone to admit you're right and say the market is dead/F'd? Okay, that's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. Are things as good as they were a year ago? No, availability is lower and prices are higher for quite a few compounds. Does that mean the market is "dead"? Not in my opinion, no, not even close. Things haven't changed too much over the past few months, despite rumors of things "turning around soon" having been proclaimed for the past 5+ months or so. I'll say I'm personally leaning towards a more pessimistic outlook, and have been putting away as much of a surplus as I can since spring, so I don't stand in opposition to the sentiment that things are heading in a direction of uncertainty as far as the future is concerned. The current prices and availability are still manageable for nearly anyone not on a "kid mowing lawns" budget to get and take what they want, even if it's quite a bit less affordable than it once was. If we start to see pricing and availability get to a point where that's no longer the case, then your word choice of "dead" would be acceptable, in my opinion.