I’ve had a crashed market essentially be the death knell in several games now, and I’m wondering if anyone has any good strategies for defeating this tactic (or to be more specific, defeating it after the market has already been crashed).
Buyouts come to mind first, of course, though depending on the circumstances of the nations in question they aren’t always possible. On the other hand, is there really anything else to do than attempt a buyout?
Buyouts and high cash stocks are the only remedies I’ve seen. As tax bases increase, by and large prices follow. Crashes are usually the product of low banks (while everoyne is naming and hiring) and low tax bases (while all the exposed pops are burned) before emmies become good enough to start Improving pops. So the only effective solution is to convert from a resource-dependent economy to a tax-funded economy, which, if it works, means you no longer need to worry about commodity prices 
Difficult in a holocaust type war where you’re all supposed to be fighting, not building suburbs…even if one or two nations are fortunate (?) enough to have the luxury to sit on their thumbs, aren’t others getting wasted…? I’ve personally seen, and on occasion, run, very large tax base nations well beyond the mid game, but relatively speaking the rest of the world has devolved into something similar to an FA start up, with the expected economy as a result.