As part of my research for my book, Backstage Wall Street, I delved deep into the history and folklore of Wall Street.
The biggest private legal settlement in the history of Wall Street was a few sentences away from death.
The keepers of Wall Street history were girding for the storm as well.
But the history of Wall Street is a series of booms and busts.
Schneiderman has asked New York State Judge Barbara Kapnick to let him intervene in the biggest legal settlement in the history of Wall Street, calling it inadequate.
FORBES: BlackRock and Pimco Investor Group Slams New York AG Schneiderman
The Berlin Wall may be history, but the Wall in the mind remains - as the results of the recent election show.
It was the eighth-largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history and the biggest on Wall Street since the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers that set off the financial crisis.
This is not the first time the Wall Street location has been at the center of history.
When she opened the door to the office, the first thing she saw was Davis sitting all by himself in a chair, staring vacantly at a Black History Month poster of Sojourner Truth on the opposite wall.
"The American banks wanted to get a piece of Chinese banks because they knew the Chinese were quite capable of avoiding Wall Street to raise capital, " said Charles Geisst, a finance professor at Manhattan College and the author of several books on Wall Street history.
Their seriousness of purpose does make one wish, however, that Mr. Wall's own engagement with the broader sweep of history was a little more robust.
But it would be a truly appalling thing if the psychology of coincidence played a part in a re-run of the Wall Street Crash, the most terrible market disaster in history.
Tonight, in an effort to distract from this reality, the Leader of the Republican party took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal to engage in an amazing act of revisionist history.
Wall Street has a long history of getting it right for themselves and leaving the little guy investor holding the bag.
From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
应用推荐