My husband and I watched a new movie last night,
Margin Call, which is about the financial crisis and the part that Wall Street played in it. It's definitely worth seeing.
For me it was rather timely on the heels of my recent trip to NYC. Our hotel, the Millenium Hilton, was in the financial district. We were just down the street from the park where the Occupy Wall Street protestors were camping out. A protest against Wall Street and basically how they screwed everyone over.
We were also across the street from the World Trade Center and were able to visit the memorial and see all the new construction going on there. At one point during the movie we paused to talk about how these people on Wall Street could justify what they were doing. These are the types of companies that had offices in the World Trade towers. The types of companies that the terrorists wanted to destroy.
So I guess the sad thing is that this financial crisis was able to happen after the 9/11 attacks. That once all the dust settled, it was back to business as usual.
For me it was rather timely on the heels of my recent trip to NYC. Our hotel, the Millenium Hilton, was in the financial district. We were just down the street from the park where the Occupy Wall Street protestors were camping out. A protest against Wall Street and basically how they screwed everyone over.
We were also across the street from the World Trade Center and were able to visit the memorial and see all the new construction going on there. At one point during the movie we paused to talk about how these people on Wall Street could justify what they were doing. These are the types of companies that had offices in the World Trade towers. The types of companies that the terrorists wanted to destroy.
So I guess the sad thing is that this financial crisis was able to happen after the 9/11 attacks. That once all the dust settled, it was back to business as usual.
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