Via Huffington: Robert Reich: The (Almost) Crash of Wall Street

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Robert Reich: Ninety minutes before the end of the trading day Thursday, the U.S. stock market almost melted down. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 1,000 points and then regained ground before the end of the day, like a giant 747 narrowly averting a crash landing. And no one knows why. Regardless of why it happened, it's further evidence that the nation's and the world's capital markets have become a vast out-of-control casino in which fortunes can be made or lost in an instant -- which would be fine except for the fact that most of us have put our life savings there. Click here to read more.