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Carpenters mission. For now they started talking. The president met with g. O. P. Leaders this afternoon at the white house. There could be more talks tonight. Its the most activity we have seen since the Government Shutdown ten days ago. One republican called the talks useful and productive, but no deal on the shutdown or the debt ceiling. Mike viqueira is standing by at the white house. Another day of political theater what does it mean . This is a little more substancetive. There is no break through to this impasse. With one week to go the possible default for the october 17t october 17th d...

slipping 139 points, s&p 500 falling 4.3%, nasdaq declining .89%. it's been allowed to go down for no apparent reasons or for reasons we can make up to suit the cause. i got an idea. let's go over some of the reasons i could give you for the selloff with a total straight face. i'm going to give you ten totally authoritative explanations we can try out every night when everything looks dicey. we ought to call it something. let's call it the bear boilerplate special. here we go. one. the economy's weak. so we should sell stocks. two, fed policy isn't working. why don't we sell stocks? ...