Economy will be stable. It is the social cohesion that will suffer.
That too. Get enough people losing their homes, cars, jobs -- all that middleclass infratructure stuff -- and they'll start falling for any line of crap spouted by a halfwit with a teaspoon of charisma.
In America, we have always had the possiblity of achieving
great economic success: this factor is what makes us different than other cultures.