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Who Should Be More Freaked Out About The Economy — Trump Or The Democrats?

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): With the Dow nosedive on Monday, here’s our topic for today: Should President Trump be freaking out about the stock market, and/or should Democrats be freaking out about the economy? Let’s take those in order! clare.malone (Clare […]

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Could A Stock Market Downturn Tank Trump’s Approval Rating?

The stock market fell on Monday. A lot. After a roller-coaster day, the Dow Jones industrial average ended down 1,175 points, making for the largest single-day point decline in its history. In percentage terms, the decline isn’t nearly as bad — the 4.6 percent drop is well short of the record 22.6 percent sell-off that […]

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