Balloon Juice » The Dow Comes Tumbling Down

Balloon Juice » The Dow Comes Tumbling Down :The United States is not in default, but the stock market is tumbling anyway.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 265 points Tuesday as mounting concerns about the fragility of the U.S. economy weighed heavily on Wall Street. It was the Dow eighth straight daily loss, the worst string, since the depths of the global financial crisis in 2008.