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Just how far those markets plunged

September

“Bloomberg News”:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aFVo3p8GzeWk&refer=home reports that equities lost $1.2 trillion in market value today.

Cost of the bailout: $700 billion.

The Dow Jones fell 778 points as the bailout plan failed.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 5:41 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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Noreen O'Donnell For the last 20 years, Noreen O'Donnell has written about Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate, rebuilding Ground Zero, the Korean immigrants who travel north each day from Queens to work in nail salons, deadly runaway fire trucks and other stories in Westchester and Putnam counties. Now she's a columnist.

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… and another thing

A repository of random thoughts, odds and ends, and not-quite-fully-formed ideas.

Just how far those markets plunged

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