5 weeks on the brink: Reliving meltdown of '08

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Sat, 09/05/2009 - 09:55

The nation was focused on a tropical storm spinning off the Carolinas and a hurricane headed for Florida.

People were gaming out how a political novice named Sarah Palin might upend the presidential campaign.


 

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