Wall Street
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Wall Street is a street running eight blocks in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or New York-based financial interests.
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In popular culture
Film
- Many events of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities center on Wall Street and its culture.
- In the film The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Bane attacks the Gotham City Stock Exchange. Scenes were filmed in and around the New York Stock Exchange, with the J.P. Morgan Building at Wall Street and Broad Street standing in for the Exchange.
- The film The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is a black comedy about Jordan Belfort, a New York stockbroker who ran the firm, Stratton Oakmont, that engaged in securities fraud and corruption on Wall Street in the 1990s.
Literature
- Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho (1991) follows the day-to-day life of Wall Street investment banker and serial killer Patrick Bateman.
- In William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury (1929), Jason Compson hits on other perceptions of Wall Street: after finding some of his stocks are doing poorly, he blames "the Jews".
- Herman Melville's classic short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (first published in 1853 and republished in revised edition in 1856) is subtitled "A Story of Wall Street" and provides an excellent portrayal of the alienating forces at work within the confines of Wall Street.
- 9½ Weeks
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