
What Wall Street’s wild swings say about the global economy
Clip: 10/14/2014 | 4m 26s
What Wall Street’s wild swings say about the global economy
Lately the financial markets have been swinging from record leaps to sudden drops. Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, says that while the U.S. economy is continuing its recovery, the rest of the world is weakening. Prasad joins Gwen Ifill for a closer look at what's happening.
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What Wall Street’s wild swings say about the global economy
Clip: 10/14/2014 | 4m 26s
Lately the financial markets have been swinging from record leaps to sudden drops. Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University and the Brookings Institution, says that while the U.S. economy is continuing its recovery, the rest of the world is weakening. Prasad joins Gwen Ifill for a closer look at what's happening.
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