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Echoes of Black Tuesday

Eighty years ago today, the stock market dove more than 11 percent on record volume. The crash, like our own, was a wakeup call for change, says Nomi Prins—but Obama isn’t heeding the lessons of FDR and changing the banking landscape.

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