Eagler, nothing we cannot overcome, not only as a nation, but as a world. 1929 was the true test...and since then there have been measures placed within the financial world to withstand that kind of market dump. Yep, financial sitution is gonna be bleak at best. We've done it before(withstood hard times), we will do it again. The Euro market was slightly up last I checked, with even a stable dollar..the Asian market was down, but a spike in the market is normal with times like these. Unprecedented, certainly.