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Default How wall street blew up the housing market

Larry wrote:

Wall Street is a street in NY that is the location of most of our stock
exchanges - NYSE, AMEX, and NASAQ, among others. Sure they are run by
people, but so is your local McDonald's.


Whoa. You mean you DO know what Wall Street is?
I didn't know that.
Whenever I heard "Wall Street" I thought about Pink Floyd's
"The Wall," wallpaper, or manhole covers.
Finally looked it up in wiki and found this,

"Over time, Wall Street became the name of the surrounding geographic
neighborhood[2] and also shorthand (or a metonym) for the "influential
financial interests" of the American financial industry"

Didn't know that.
Looks like you did. Kudos.

Jim - Learn something new every day. Got to look up "metonym" tomorrow.



 
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