: It would be funny as hack if people stopped contributing for 401Ks and took a lot of their money out of the stock markets and related "investment funds" and began actually saving money in safes, safe deposit boxes, or Mason jars in the back yard and/or putting money into deferred income annuities. Or some combination thereof.
Wall Street would freak TF out. So would Congress. It'd be a hoot.
@thedisasterautist Everyone wants to get rich easy. It's incredible the number of people I know who started investing in stocks in recent years, and to be honest, i'm included in that although I'm very low on the totem pole of investments.
@Stevo: The get-rich-quick in stocks was the big thing in the 1980s. Shunting everyone's money into the stock market was the way Reagan & Co. figured would make life better, but it didn't, really. The results were illusory, smoke and mirrors, but hey, it made people fell better and made a LOT of people VERY rich.