Markets are still highly unstable and it enhances a feeling of panic that can easily upset the financial world within a few hours: "you don't know which market is triggering either the good feeling or the bad feeling in the next market", this trader explains. For economist Robert Brusca, lack of vigilance from governments and regulators is largely to blame for the current crisis: "Essentially no one was watching". This is now having a catastrophic impact on the real economy. Marcia is about to lose her property and feels humiliated: "I am bitter, I'm bitter, because it is affecting all of us." Others have given up on their plan to retire early: "I'm closing on 50, and I had hoped to retire around 60, and things like this may delay that." Average voters feel they're being made to pay for Wall Street's mistakes and they plan to express their anger on the 4th of November. "Nothing matters right now except the economy", says a professor of economics, "when you poll Americans on what they are going to vote on, number 1, 2 and 3 is the economy, the economy, the economy". This doesn't bode well for the Republican ticket.