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Banker: `This Is a Sliding Crash Into Hell'

Jan. 24, 2008 (EIRNS)—Commenting on the current stock market crash, a senior European financial source told EIR today, "This is a sliding crash into hell," adding that he thought it could not be stopped. The fact that the stock market rebounds over rumors of good news or just because there is no bad news, he said, simply shows the "insanity" that is out there.