Wall Street Panics & Collapses: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #107
Using mostly cartoons shown over the course of our Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons run, plus a scattering of a few new ones, we have a brief review in pictures, of Wall Street Crashes & Panics, from mid-19th Century, up through Great Depression I. The upcoming election pits one candidate who is a millionaire [...]
The Monopolist’s Prayer: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons # 89
This week’s U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s calling out of Paul Ryan’s & Congressional Republicans’ budget proposals, as failing to meet the moral criteria of the Church (click here to learn more), reminds us that the religious are not politically monolithic, and not all of them have been co-opted into subservience to Republican ideology above [...]
The Abuse of Wealth: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 73
This week, a couple cartoons appropriate to the spirit of the Christmas season. Above, the centerspread of the September 11th, 1878 issue of Puck magazine, titled The Abuse of Wealth Which Creates Communists Among Us, by Puck‘s founder, Joseph Keppler, Sr. The point being how the excesses and greed of the wealthy in ignoring the [...]
Get Off the Earth!: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 67
As the pressure builds from corporate interests, politicians, and conservative media lapdogs (Fox News), for local governments to invent reasons to evict The People from various “Occupy Wall Street”-inspired protest sites, the above 1895 cartoon by artist Frank Beard, is just as on target today, as it was 116 years ago, when it was originally [...]
In Conclusion (For Now): Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 64
Above, Uncle Takes the Boys’ Bones by Daniel Fitzpatrick, published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as soon after reprinted in the April 1934 issue of American Review of Reviews. Well, it took longer than we’d hoped it would take, and the resultant legislation is not perfect, but today, President Obama signs the latest financial crisis-inspired [...]
