Economies are more resilient to terror than you think

The Brussels attacks hardly affected the financial markets. You shouldn't be surprised.

Today's attacks barely influenced the stock market.
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After the deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, the financial media had one overwhelming concern: How will the markets react?

This is pretty typical. Every time there's a terrorist attack, the business and economics world quickly turns to reporting how stocks are digesting the news. Now, I am sympathetic to journalists that have to cover their beats, but there actually wasn't much of a response to the Brussels attacks in the financial markets. There certainly was no panic.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.