Why Wall Street is freaking out

Is it simply because things are finally getting back to normal?

A stock trader.
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Why are stocks cratering?

Plenty of other economic indicators are quite healthy. GDP growth for the third quarter was 3.5 percent. That's down from the 4.2 percent boom in the second quarter — but it's still good for America's best back-to-back quarterly growth in four years.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.