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10 years after the 2008 financial crisis, is the U.S. prepared?

Wild swings in the stock market are fueling concerns over a potential new economic slowdown. The Dow plunged more than 550 points Friday. It was partly a response to rising trade tensions between the U.S. and China after the arrest of the Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou. It's been a decade since the last major economic slowdown. About 8.7 million Americans lost their jobs, and some of the world's biggest banks collapsed. Alex Wagner spoke to former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, some of the key players in the 2008 financial crisis.
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