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On the recordJuly 18, 2002
No wonder the stock market has been plunging since the president gave a tepid speech on Wall Street last week.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Linking the stock market decline to President Bush's speech.

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