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Trading floors feel the pulse of crisis

Trading floors all over New York -- at private companies that trade commodities or bonds or pretty much anything else -- have been crazy this week. Kai Ryssdal talks with Tom Digaloma, who runs a government-bond trading desk, about what it's been like.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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