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Occupy Wall Street Faces Down Wall Street. Wall Street Blinks.

by Angus Johnston

On Tuesday I wrote that Occupy Wall Street had grown “too big, and too popular, to shut down completely.” The very next day Bloomberg announced plans to do just that.

Oops.

But then at 6:40 this morning, just twenty minutes before the scheduled eviction, he blinked. (It was later reported that the decision had been made at midnight, but this seems hard to fathom — if so, why let