Stocks Fall Sharply Ahead Of "Big Tuesday" Primaries

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As financial markets reckon with another acute shock, a question for the White House resurfaces: will it take measures to stabilize the U.S. economy? And Michigan, Missouri, and four other states head to the polls Tuesday, in what could be be a make-or-break day for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley, campaign correspondent Juana Summers, and national political correspondent Don Gonyea.

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0:00.0	This is Diana from Whittier Calling from the start line of the 2020 Los Angeles Marathon.
0:05.0	This podcast was recorded at 2.37 pm on Monday, March 9.
0:10.1	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:11.8	Like hopefully I'll have 26.200 my bell.
0:14.3	Alright, here's the show.
0:17.1	Well, congratulations.
0:20.5	Let's just assume you've finished and that it felt great.
0:22.7	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:25.2	I'm Tamer Keith.
0:26.2	I cover the White House.
0:27.7	And we are going to talk all things big Tuesday.
0:31.3	That would be the primaries tomorrow.
0:32.9	But first I want to phone a friend, though not literally on the phone.
0:37.8	Scott Horsley is here.
0:39.3	Hi Scott.
0:40.3	Good to be here Tam.
0:41.3	I wish it were under happier circumstances.
0:42.8	And Scott, you are the Chief Economics correspondent for NPR.
0:47.4	But I think we should start calling you Dr. Doom.
0:50.4	It's been that kind of winter.
0:52.2	Yeah, so we have you here because when the financial markets opened this morning,
0:57.6	in the US, they dropped so quickly that trading had to be halted.
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