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    Impact of This Week's Plunge in Global Financial on Main Street

    The British stock market has fallen for eight straight days, the Hong Kong Market's in its worst slump since 2011 and, today Wall Street is ending its worst week since 2012. Is it time to panic? David Wessel is former Economics Editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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    By Warren Olney • Aug 21, 2015 • 6m Listen

    The British stock market has fallen for eight straight days, the Hong Kong Market's in its worst slump since 2011 and, today Wall Street is ending its worst week since 2012. Is it time to panic? David Wessel is former Economics Editor at the Wall Street Journal. He's now director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Jenny Hamel

      KCRW

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      David Wessel

      Brookings Institution

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Pilots Are Now Sharing the Skies with Drones
    1. 1:38Impact of This Week's Plunge in Global Financial on Main StreetYou’re reading this
    2. 8:27Is a New Kind of Airborne Accident Just Waiting to Happen?
    3. 42:07Inside Stephen Colbert's Preparations for 'The Late Show'
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