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About Wall Street
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Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It runs east from Broadway downhill to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District. Wall Street was the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange; over time Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geographic neighborhood. Full Article
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The Wall Street sign is seen in front of the New York Stock Exchange, October 8, 2009.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: New Zealand's Prime MInister John Key (C) arrives on Wall Street to ring the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, September 24, 2009, in New York City. Stocks fell today for the second straight day of trading.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: A businessman pauses on Wall Street on September 16, 2009 in New York, City. With further economic news indicating that the recession is easing, stocks rose Wednesday with the Dow up 70 points in afternoon trading.
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President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, during a speech at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York.
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President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, during a speech at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York.
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President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, during a speech at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York.
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President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression, during a speech at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York.
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President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street, Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression, during a speech at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York.
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Wall Street news is displayed on the Dow Jones ticker Thursday, July 30, 2009, in New York's Times Square.
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The Wall Street sign hangs in front of the American flag on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, July 23, 2009 in New York. Investors celebrated news of another jump in home sales by propelling the Dow Jones industrials to their first close above 9,000 since January.
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Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff (C) arrives at a US Federal Court on March 12, 2009 in New York.
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Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff (C) arrives at a US Federal Court on March 12, 2009 in New York.
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NEW YORK - JUNE 24: People walk along Wall St. outside of the New York Stock Exchange June 24, 2009 in New York City.
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NEW YORK - JUNE 24: People walk along Wall St. outside of the New York Stock Exchange June 24, 2009 in New York City.
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A demonstrator holds a sign during a rally outside Wall Street in New York in this April 4, 2009 file photo. Wall Street may be losing its luster for new U.S. college graduates who are increasingly looking to the government for jobs that enrich their social conscience, if not their wallet.
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NEW YORK - JUNE 10: Job seekers and recruiters mingle during a Wall Street Pink Slip Party at City Winery June 10, 2009 in New York City.
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NEW YORK - JUNE 10: Job seekers and recruiters mingle during a Wall Street Pink Slip Party at City Winery June 10, 2009 in New York City.
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NEW YORK - JUNE 10: A job seeker holds her resume during a Wall Street Pink Slip Party at City Winery June 10, 2009 in New York City.
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NEW YORK - JUNE 10: A job seeker talks with a recruiter during a Wall Street Pink Slip Party at City Winery June 10, 2009 in New York City.
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NEW YORK - JUNE 10: A job seeker checks his cell phone during a Wall Street Pink Slip Party at City Winery June 10, 2009 in New York City.
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A homeless person sits under blankets at a Wall Street subway station Wednesday, May 20, 2009 in New York.
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Joseph Sorbara, former co-owner of Wall Street brokerage firm Joseph Stevens & Co. Inc. , is escorted to Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 in New York.
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Steven Markowitz, former co-owner of Wall Street brokerage firm Joseph Stevens & Co. Inc. , is escorted to Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 in New York.
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NEW YORK - MARCH 27: A magician performs on Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange March 27, 2009 in New York City. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 148 points to close at 7,776.18.
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NEW YORK - MARCH 27: Alvin Freeman wears a 'We Buy Gold' sign on Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange March 27, 2009 in New York City. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 148 points to close at 7,776.18.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: New Zealand's Prime MInister John Key (C) arrives on Wall Street to ring the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, September 24, 2009, in New York City. Stocks fell today for the second straight day of trading.
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We have seen a great deal of anger from the public about the fact that once again we see Wall Street nationalizing the risk and privatizing the gain ... The downside is always felt by the worker and the upside is always realized by those who never seem to take a loss no matter what happens.
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Since the fallout on Wall Street last year there's been a big decline in rents so that's really given a lot of new retailers opportunities to open up in the city and come in for the first time
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Since the fall of 2009. That's when SIGTARP — the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program — revealed the mistakes we made with the giant AIG bailout. And that's also around the time the public began to react to the enormous contradiction between massive unemployment on Main Stree...
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When was Wall Street on the verge of a total meltdown? In September of 2008! When were the record bonuses paid out? In December of 2009! So that's 14 months. It was just 14 months later that the employee bonuses at the three big Wall Street survivors — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley —...
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made Thanksgiving dinner a little livelier ... The two of us ended up on Wall Street Week and other TV shows going mano a mano.
– Gary Gensler SOURCE: ABC News -
She voted for the 700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout just one day after she told a group of Texas Taxpayers she was against it.
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The rating agencies' total disregard for the life's work of ordinary Ohioans caused the collapse of our housing and credit markets and is at the heart of what's wrong with Wall Street today
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Conservative opponents of Barack Obama have applied the epithet ‘socialism’ to his ambitious plans to exert greater federal control over health care and energy policy, even though the Bush administration, the most conservative in modern history, itself orchestrated a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street
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You've got Wall Street doing better than most American workers in this country, you've got 10.2 percent unemployment and a ballooning federal debt. Those are the problems for Secretary Geithner, and he's just the proxy, because those are really the problems for the President. Overall, it's a perception ...
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Unfortunately, the president has an adviser from Wall Street, Larry Summers, and an adviser from Wall Street, Timmy Geithner, who don’t like that idea
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Rep. Peter DeFazio, one of the most outspoken Democratic critics of the White House economic team, said he plans to press the 27-member Congressional Populist Caucus to back his call for their ouster ... The Oregon Democrat created a stir on Capitol Hill after an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday during whi...
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Some of the largest shareholders in Goldman Sachs Group Inc have urged the Wall Street firm to reduce the size of its bonus pool, arguing that it should pass along more of its blockbuster earnings to investors
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It was taxpayers who rescued Wall Street. Now it is time for Wall Street to contribute to the growth of Main Street
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It was taxpayers who rescued Wall Street. Now it is time for Wall Street to contribute to the growth of Main Street
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They want to keep the TARP money either to continue to bail out Wall Street if there are future problems, or maybe … to pay down the deficit. That's absurd
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This amendment will end taxpayer financed bailouts, eliminate ‘too big to fail’ and will create a system going forward where we force the big-bank, Wall Street fat cats to pay any mess they make
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Don't we have as much ambition, money and greed as Wall Street or Hollywood?
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Goldman Sachs, the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, had a record profit in the first nine months of this year and set aside $16.7 billion for compensation expenses.
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The lobbying wing of Big Business has sunk to new lows: spending a record $300,000 a day lobbying to block efforts to address global warming and create clean energy jobs; health care reform and workers' rights; and attempts to reign in corporate greed on Wall Street
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Im extremely disappointed that the financial health of millions of American taxpayers has been completely brushed aside by a handful of Wall Street banking interests in the U.S. Senate ... I opposed bailing out these banks, and I am appalled at the utter disdain with which these companies are treating t...
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Wall Street companies and executives should have to pay for their own mistakes ... New Hampshire’s responsible working families should never have to reach into their own pockets to bail out Wall Street corporations that gambled away retirement and education funds. Stopping the bailouts before they start...
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Summers said in an interview that his experience at Shaw, however brief, gave him valuable insight into the practical realities of Wall Street, insight he is now putting to use in shaping economic policy in the White House.
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The national economy is slowly improving, but Wall Street has recovered much faster than anyone had envisioned
– Thomas DiNapoli SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
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