(Update: Total now stands at $2 Trillion U.S. loss)
In one fell swoop, the House of Representatives has applied a sledgehammer to the American economy.
The staggering plunge in the value of publicly quoted stocks in the US last night - a $1.2 trillion fall - shows more clearly than anything else just how much it had been holding out for a financial bail-out....
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