Do most Americans even care what the market does? /nt

[still_one]

[glowing]

1. If their money for retirement is invested in the market and they are near

retirement, YES... If they are younger, like me, you don't really because you can't afford to borrow any money and your job doesn't even offer a 401K.

[still_one]

4. However, if the market drops enough, jobs will dry up also /nt

[bigtree]

2. they care about the economic consequences

job loss, pay cuts, lost dividends in retirement accounts . . .

[still_one]

9. If there is no deal before Monday, I suspect we will see a record sell-off /nt

[EV_Ares]

3. Yes and yes, many people have their reitirement in 401Ks. eom.

[mmonk]

5. Those with retirement plans and those

that are retired on fixed income instruments or investments. There are still many who don't because they don't understand it and figure it won't affect them.

[AlCzervik]

6. i do, i don't have much in the way of stocks but the ones i own have been all over

the place for the past 2 weeks. I swear i'm not even looking tomorrow.

[still_one]

10. It will even be worse on Monday if nothing is decided /nt

[AlCzervik]

11. i'm still not looking and i'm worried about the money market account we have.

i have a kid to put through college in 5 years and as we know college funds are getting harder to aquire.

[still_one]

14. Probably a wise thing not to look /nt

[MichiganVote]

7. What else do we manufacture in the US besides paper money? Yes it matters.

[bdamomma]

8. people in retirement do.

[HughMoran]

12. I've lost > 30% of my net worth already

...and we haven't even seen a crash yet.

So, I do care about the fact that the kids college fund has been cut in half, yes.

[stillcool]

13. not unless they can see how..

the consequences will affect them. Maybe not until they 'feel' them.