An Unhappy Anniversary of the Financial Meltdown

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With the anniversary last week of Lehman Brothers’ collapse and the semi-official start of the global financial crisis, pollsters were checking in on how consumers felt a year after the deluge. And despite talk in recent months of “green shoots,” respondents to a number of early-September surveys remained  glum about the national economy and their personal financial condition.

In an ABC News/ Washington Post survey, 55 percent of respondents said the downturn has been a source of stress in their lives, including 33 percent rating the stress as “serious.”

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