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Americans are bracing for inflation and a market crash: survey:
Inflation and a potential stock market crash. These are the two biggest threats to the US economy and to the financial wellbeing of Americans, so says a survey by personal finance software firm Quicken.
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based Quicken/SurveyMonkey online poll was taken earlier this month, which consisted of a sample of 1,200 US adults ages 18 to 74 from the Cint Consumer Network, according to Quicken's press release.
The survey revealed that nearly three-fourths who responded to the survey (71%) ranked inflation (currently at 7% and the highest since the early 1980s), as the top concern, followed by new COVID-19 variants, supply chain disruptions and a stock market crash. On that last point, the survey noted that 52% surveyed agree that there will be a stock market crash in the next five years. Of that group, 58% expect a looming stock market crash will impact their finances negatively, according to the press release.
Yet not everyone views a potential crash as such a bad prospect. Some Americans saw the financial gains that more aggressive investors had made from the day of the 2008 stock market crash, and are now looking to capitalize for the next one. According to the press release, 52% of self-described "aggressive" investors are likely to say the 2008 crash benefited them financially, compared to 18% of so-called "conservative" investors. What's more, 71% of aggressive investors, compared to 20% of conservative investors, believe a stock market crash in the future would benefit them financially. A notable percentage of respondents who believe there's going to be a crash in the next five years – 35% – agree that they're waiting for a crash in order to invest some extra cash.
A sizable percentage of younger adult generations surveyed – Millennial and Gen Z – also see the benefits to a future stock market crash. According to the survey, 41% of Gen Z and 36% of Millennials agree that they are waiting for a stock crash in order to invest their extra cash. Another 30% of Gen Z and 28% of Millennials say they're waiting for a crash so that they can start investing, according to the press release.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday January 23 2022, @10:15PM (1 child)
The economy was already in the shittier before covid.
Like Wikipedia says, citation needed. Yes, the economy grew at a slightly slower rate under Trump than under Obama, but I'm retired and saw nothing going up until after the lockdown was lifted here and the beer distributers raised the price of a case of beer to bars by two bucks.
I saw nothing about unemployment until lately, when there's actually a labor shortage. What planet are you from?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 24 2022, @02:38AM
Yeah, citation needed.
Along the same lines, the transaction price for new cars is up a huge amount and that must be part of the current inflation numbers(?) This can't last, it's the way the car companies have figured out how to make money on less volume of cars sold. The chip shortage is a major problem (along with other supply chain issues)--and the workaround is to put the available chips (and other components from Asia) in high end models only. One of these days there will again be availability of lower "content", lower priced cars.