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Wall Street Plunge

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The financial markets plunged to their biggest one day point loss in history yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 7.2 percent Monday, the largest one-day percentage drop since October 1987.

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  • Doug Henwood, the editor of the Left Business Observer, an economics newsletter, and the author of ??Wall Street: How It Works, recently published by Verso.

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