Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Black Friday Protest: '16 Shots. Stop the cover-up!'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Black Friday Protest: '16 Shots. Stop the cover-up!':

Black Friday Protest: '16 Shots. Stop the cover-up!'

When Black Friday comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor -Steely Dan

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping madness, but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive the price sky-high and sell it for astonishing profits. On that Friday in September, the conspiracy finally unraveled, sending the stock market into free-fall and Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Black Friday Protest: '16 Shots. Stop the cover-up!':