"Dow down 300-plus after manufacturing report, bond insurer downgrades"
"Stocks end another day with big drops."
On the surface, going on appearances, not digging in too deeply, not being an economist or neocon, this liberal has the sense these have been more than normal market fluctuations. Overall about a 15% drop, and even more when one figures the less valuable dollar.
As the mid-nineteenth century Chinese railroad worker said when his weeks wages were sending fewer and fewer yuan home, "Flucted again!"
Arf