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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Stocks tumbled today. Are we heading toward a recession?

The stock market has spent the last 10 years going up and up. But today was the worst day of the year on Wall Street. The S&P was down nearly 3% and the Dow was down more than 800 points.

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By Madeleine Brand • Aug 15, 2019 • 1 min read

The stock market has spent the last 10 years going up and up. But today was the worst day of the year on Wall Street. The S&P was down nearly 3% and the Dow was down more than 800 points. It’s not the first market stumble in recent weeks, and it has some economists wondering if we’re headed for a recession.

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