Money crisis: Americans react

Real people across the country answer the question: what are you doing with your money in the wake of the financial crisis?

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Riding it out
Riding it out
Jay Foote, with his wife, Amanda
Jay Foote, 30, vice president at a credit union, Oklahoma City, Okla.

It's a bad time to pull our investments [out of the market], so my wife and I may re-look into what we've invested in a little while from now and then reconsider some of those investments. We're paying more attention to the market now that these things have happened. I work for a credit union and she works for a museum, so our jobs are safe. We'll just ride it out.

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Last updated October 02 2008: 5:00 PM ET
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