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The Story of the First Wall Street Rebellion - “Descriptions of the event on Wall Street might seem eerily familiar. ‘It was a crush out of a blue sky—an unexpected, death-dealing bolt,” one witness observed, “which in a twinkling turned into a shambles the busiest corner of America’s financial center and sent scurrying to places of shelter hundreds of wounded, dumb-stricken, white-faced men and women—fleeing from an unknown danger.… Looking down Wall Street later I could see arising from the vicinity of the subtreasury building and the J.P. Morgan and Co. bank, a mushroom-shaped cloud of yellowish, green smoke which mounted to a height of more than 100 feet, the smoke being licked by darting tongues of flame.’” Anger and Anarchy on Wall Street

The Story of the First Wall Street Rebellion - “Descriptions of the event on Wall Street might seem eerily familiar. ‘It was a crush out of a blue sky—an unexpected, death-dealing bolt,” one witness observed, “which in a twinkling turned into a shambles the busiest corner of America’s financial center and sent scurrying to places of shelter hundreds of wounded, dumb-stricken, white-faced men and women—fleeing from an unknown danger.… Looking down Wall Street later I could see arising from the vicinity of the subtreasury building and the J.P. Morgan and Co. bank, a mushroom-shaped cloud of yellowish, green smoke which mounted to a height of more than 100 feet, the smoke being licked by darting tongues of flame.’” Anger and Anarchy on Wall Street

The Bankers and the Revolutionaries - Nicholas Kristof discusses the Occupy Wall Street Movement that some are calling Tahrir on the Hudson, and how banks got away with murder and managed, through excess leverage, to socialize risk and privatize profits. The discussion continues on his blog.

The Bankers and the Revolutionaries - Nicholas Kristof discusses the Occupy Wall Street Movement that some are calling Tahrir on the Hudson, and how banks got away with murder and managed, through excess leverage, to socialize risk and privatize profits. The discussion continues on his blog.