If the stock market were to crash, how would you be affected?

Answer 1

If you buy gold commodities and inflation-indexed bonds, you're gambling that the economy goes south, so when it does, you typically see larger gains. So it's always good to invest in some things like that just in case of a market crash.

Answer 2

for a similar reasons that the sub-best disaster is unfavorable the country now. companies, which hire people, want capital to maintain on. the place there's a scarcity of self assurance in the capital markets money is greater good to get, and expenditures greater via larger expenditures of activity. people choose for to speculate in different procedures. If the capital isn't accessible employer activity contracts and individuals lose their jobs. The sub-best debacle affected fairly few people at as quickly as, however the ripples it fairly is inflicting via increasing the cost of capital are having an significant oblique result. The 1929 crash has scared regulators and capital markets so there is way less risk of yet another crash happening, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it fairly is conceivable.

Answer 3

Well, I imagine that things would be worse then they were the last time the stock market crashed (Great Depression) just about everything nowadays is ATM machines, credit cards... and seeing as all the banks would suspend operations, I wouldnt get any of my hard earned money out of the bank, Companies (large and small) would go under without loans, money transfers from other companies... In short, I think we would all be SOL.

Answer 4

If the stock market were to crash, as of now, I would not be personally affected (apart from the likelihood of a recession)...

Cordially,
John

Answer 5

not just one person would be affected but the whole population in general.. we all rely on these things. but many of us take them for granted.. There is the issue that this whole world relies on the stock market even though some of us doesn't realize it.. every single company goes through this......

Answer 6

Well from an investment perspective, I'd do all right as I have big stakes in cash, international bonds, precious metals, and the Rydex Inverse S&P fund. (An inverse fund goes up when the market goes down.)

Answer 7

The same as the rest of the country, by cause and effect and then by supply and demand.

Answer 8

i might be out a couple thousand bucks and other than the obvious fallout of such an economic catastrophe, i'd be okay...i don't have a fortune invested yet...

Answer 9

Not too much, I only started investing in the last year.

Answer 10

Mine invested in the bank, I hope the bank invested well.