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What a display of national rage! Perhaps more than 100 people showed up! The very continent shifted from the concentration of human mass in one place! Oh, sorry, that was just Michael Moore...
Nothing more than a few clowns looking for a circus.
Art used to be known as an "investment of passion"; today for those who can pay, it is a form of haven. Demand for art, watches, rare wines, vintage cars, boats and wine expanded in 2010 as the world's super-rich rebounded from the 2008 financial crisis, according to a report by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch in June. A 300-bottle collection of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild sold at auction earlier this month in Hong Kong for $540,000, the highest value lot achieved at any wine auction in the world during 2011.
In New York, the protesters are largely educated, organized and their marches are planned, not spontaneous.
After hundreds of protesters were denied access to some areas outside the New York Stock Exchange on September 17, demonstrators set up a rag-tag camp three blocks away.
Griftopia
Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
It describes several of the key players in the creation of the credit default swap market that sought to bet against the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) bubble and thus ended up profiting from the financial crisis of 2007–2010. The book also highlights the eccentric nature of the type of person who bets against the market or goes against the grain.
Vancouver-based activist media group Adbusters organized the protest but failed to attract the throngs some had hoped for. Instead, there are a few hundred people, mostly unemployed youth and college students.
The non-ultra rich in this country are sheeple. BTW- how many here have financial lobbyists in Washington?
The wealth gap is as far apart as it was in the 1920's yet Beck, oxyRush, & the guy who wrote a book about his dog (Levin) have you people believing that selling-out U.S. interests for short-term gain is good. When America is completely sold out, those people will simply depart leaving you poor slobs behind holding the bag.
CaféAuLait;4209119 said:I wonder how many take issue with the fact that Canadians staged, backed and promoted this protest?
Vancouver-based activist media group Adbusters organized the protest but failed to attract the throngs some had hoped for. Instead, there are a few hundred people, mostly unemployed youth and college students.
Reuters: Wall Street now home to protest campground (2011-09-29)
I can't imagine what their reaction would be if a big insurance company decided to arrange a protest in Canada.
CaféAuLait;4209119 said:I wonder how many take issue with the fact that Canadians staged, backed and promoted this protest?
Vancouver-based activist media group Adbusters organized the protest but failed to attract the throngs some had hoped for. Instead, there are a few hundred people, mostly unemployed youth and college students.
Reuters: Wall Street now home to protest campground (2011-09-29)
I can't imagine what their reaction would be if a big insurance company decided to arrange a protest in Canada.
Protestors want the European socialist plan that's work out so well, but i guess they're missing the bailout crises and the last Fridays big sell off of gold and silver; looking for cash.