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The next step of this panic could be the mother of all bank runs, i.e. a run on the trillion dollar-plus of the cross-border short-term interbank liabilities of the U.S. banking and financial system, as foreign banks start to worry about the safety of

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"The story is getting to be like that movie Groundhog Day," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. He pointed to the still-frozen credit markets, and Libor, the bank-to-bank lending rate that remains stubbornly high despite the Fed

"Everything is closed. We couldn't sell our stock or take money from the bank," said Johann Sigurdsson as he left a branch of Landsbanki in downtown Reykjavik. Iceland is negotiating a $5.4 billion loan from Russia to shore up the nation's finances.

The Fed, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Canada and Sweden's Riksbank each cut their benchmark rates by half a percentage point. Switzerland also took part. Separately, China's central bank lowered its key one-year lending rate by 0.27 percentage point.

The Federal Reserve cuts a key interest rate by half a percentage point to steady an economy teetering on the kind of financial collapse that America suffered in 1929.

With the market dropping as many as 800 points in intraday trading, investors have to protect themselves. That’s why Cramer urged viewers who will need any significant amount of cash over the next five years to sell some of their stock holdings

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CNN's Don Lemon visits the National Debt Clock, which has run out of spaces to display $10 trillion in red ink.

An autopsy has revealed that a man found dead in a suitcase in a suburban park was a drug "mule" who had 50 packets of heroin in his body and probably died when one or two of them broke open.