Occupy Wall Street

According to MarketWatch's Brett Arends, the Occupy Wall Street protests are doomed to fail. On the contrary, for a handful of reasons I think the underlying momentum behind the Occupy Wall Street protests suggests that the movement has no other direction than some measure of success. The power...

By Todd Gibson Occupy Wall Street turned 1 month old recently. What a difference a month makes. The movement went global this past weekend with OWS protests in many cities here in the US as well as abroad. What is the big deal? I'll try to answer that. The movement, recently, is being courted by...

Amid the discussions on the Internet regarding the Occupy Wall Street protests, it has not been uncommon to read some commenting on current events criticizing the protesters as being part of a so-called "entitlement generation". I think the use of the phrase "entitlement generation" to refer to...

Bloomberg is reporting that a new survey from Quinnipiac University shows that sixty-seven percent of New York City voters agree with the views of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Broken down along party lines, 81 percent of Democrats, 58 percent of independents and 35 percent of Republicans...

Police in riot gear moved in on an Occupy Denver encampment on Friday morning. The protesters had been living in tents in front of the Colorado Capitol building for more than a week in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement taking place in Manhattan. Twenty-three people were arrested in...

Neel Kashkari, who was the Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability, and is now managing director and head of global equities at PIMCO, had an op-ed this morning on the company website that was pretty bleak in its assessment of the U.S. fiscal house, and the government's...

The Occupy Wall Street movement has the potential to turn into a political firestorm. Everyday Americans are not too happy with their government, or the conduct of the finance industry. I say, good on them. It's about time. The problem, however, is that we have become so divided as a nation that it...

The Occupy Wall Street protesters are headed uptown. According to reports, protesters are planning to take their grievances straight to the homes of the bankers (and other rich folks). CNN is reporting that "organizers are planning a march on Tuesday that will visit the homes of JP Morgan Chase CEO...

Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Everything has been gaining momentum since the lackluster beginning Sept 17. The media basically ignored the event(s), dismissing them as a bunch of hippies and iPad toting youth. They have a disadvantage because of the "scattered" message. The question I ask is why...

Where the so-called 99% may be protesting across the nation in the Occupy Wall Street movement, who is left to represent the 1%? According to a Washington Post article by Elizabeth Flock, the 1% may have a new voice in the parodical "Occupy Occupy Wall Street" counter-protest. But where the...

Alex Jones interviews Bob Chapman about Soros and MoveOn.org attempting to hijack the ‘Occupy Wall Street' movement, and Ben Bernanke (Chairman of the Federal Reserve) coming out and stating sympathy for the protestors' point of view.  Mr. Chapman states that he believes the people behind the...

A short list of thoughts on Occupying Together and comments makes for an interesting scan: Mark Engler, Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right Micah Sifry, #OccupyWallStreet: There's Something Happening Here, Mr. Jones. Mike Konczal, Understanding the Theory Behind Occupy Wall Street's...

For the past few weeks New York has been infiltrated by a protest making outlandish accusations and unrealistic demands. Based in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street is aiming to take on the powers of free enterprise and big business as they call for trillions of dollars in increased deficit spending...

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a belated backlash against the financial crisis and the 2008/2009 market meltdown and subsequent bailouts. The timing of the protests, however, may just be coinciding with another major plunge in stock prices and a possible recession. In combination with the...

The Occupy Wall Street movement, which is spreading across the U.S., has the potential to be a watershed moment. Unfortunately, it also has the potential to devolve into something that is terribly partisan and plays right into the hands of the status quo Establishment which is defined by the fake...