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title: "🚨 Very interesting note by Eric Balchunas: Has the US stock market become \"too important to fail\"?"
description: "More than 55% of Americans now own stocks, the highest participation rate in the world. With new retirement programs bringing millions more investors into the market, Wall Street is becoming deeply intertwined with household wealth, retirement security, and even politics.\n\nThe implication is profound: future policymakers may face overwhelming pressure to prevent prolonged bear markets. Some believe that, in the next major crisis, the Federal Reserve could even follow Japan and China by purchasing equity ETFs to stabilize markets.\n\nWhether or not that happens, one thing is clear: the growing financialization of the US economy is reshaping how investors think about downside risk—and may help explain why markets continue to recover so quickly after every sell-off.\n\nSource: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg"
---

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# [🚨 Very interesting note by Eric Balchunas: Has the US stock market become "too important to fail"?](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/very-interesting-note-by-eric-balchunas-has-the-us-stock-market-become-too-important-to-fail)

 Written by [Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA](https://blog.syzgroup.com/syz-the-moment/author/charles-henry-monchau) | Jul 8, 2026, 3:37:48 PM

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