About 350 million people in the U.S.; 8 1/2 billion in the world, but you make your economic conclusions based on above sample?
you boys might want to look at the insane amount of gold that institutions are buying, it might be all out of fear, but it is there.
Not leaving your parents' basement for days at end can make traders "short tempered, close minded even delusional borderline psychotic."
money in the market is never lost if you an investor are long and you lose money it did not go into outer space the trader who is short the same market just got your money. so you lost your money because you are wrong - both politically and investing. but guess what someone else got your money and they are doing the happy dance.
So explain something to us. If a stock goes down drastically in price (let's say due to a bad earnings report) and nobody is short then where did the money go.