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Stocks on Monday were down sharply as traders reacted to Moody's downgrading the United States' credit rating.

U.S. credit downgrade reflects growing acknowledgement of "political turmoil," says economist

Nina Eichacker, an economics professor at the University of Rhode Island, says the downgrade speaks to a “growing disparity between an administration that talks about wanting to reduce the debt and then pursues policies that do anything but.”