He had inherited a crisis of historic proportions, and in his inaugural address the new president spoke candidly. He described recent, devastating losses on Wall Street, an economy frozen by uncertainty and massive layoffs, a government stretching to meet its obligations, and the precarious state of millions of families whose savings had been lost in the carnage. The suffering he cited was real; the monster that had crushed their confidence, less so. … Back to Article
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