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 [...]
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First up, the Wall Street Financial Reforms legislation was finally passed yesterday! That accomplished, the Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons series has reached its end. A concluding episode to wrap the series up will appear next week, using several of my scanned, but not yet posted, cartoons. The Monopolists series, the Charles Jay Taylor [...]
Still Ticking for the Big Operator: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 62
Below, Still Ticking for the Big Operator, by Weed in the New York Evening World, showing Wall Street still working for the larger investors, but with small speculators hung dead by the stock values ticker tape. From September 1929, as reprinted in American Review of Reviews. Click here to find prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons [...]
The Biggest Loafer of Them All: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 61
As Congress returns from its July 4th Recess today, and assumably resumes their debate on the Wall Street / Financial Reform legislation… (and, if they aren’t resuming it today, how about we label them the Second Biggest Loafers???)… following is a reminder from Great Depression I, of precisely who (apparently in both Depressions), The Biggest [...]
Mr. Hoover’s & GOP’s Road to Prosperity, 1929-32: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 57
In tribute to Senate Republicans’ blockage of Wall Street/Financial Reform legislation last week (thanks to the death of Senator Robert Byrd taking one vote away from the Democrats — plus the Democrats’ lack of conviction to make due with a simple 51 vote majority by forcing Republicans to actually stage their filibuster on the matter), [...]
Stocks Will Never Go Down! Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 51
Does this look familiar? Two Pictures, But the Same Man, by editorial cartoonist Warren, originally published in the Cleveland News, then soon after reprinted in the August 1930 issue of American Review of Reviews, from which the below scan came. Click here to find prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries, and related I.T.C.H. [...]
Short Selling, 1930s-style: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 49
Below, a cartoon by Daniel Bishop of the St. Louis Star, depicting “New York Stock Exchange”, with his crazy ugly wife “Short Selling”, and their club-armed brat kid “Bear Stories”. This cartoon was reprinted in the April 1932 issue of American Review of Reviews, as an illustration of the wrong-headedness of those denouncing the practice of short [...]
Sold Out, 1929: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 40
Sold Out, by Rollin Kirby. This cartoon appeared in the (New York) World, shortly after 1929 Stock Market Crash. I scanned it from its reprinting in the December 1929 issue of American Review of Reviews. Click here to find both the prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries, and related I.T.C.H. posts. This series [...]
Skipping Town When Most Needed: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 23
From the Financial Crisis of 1893, this cartoon originally appeared (in color) in the June 17, 1893 issue of Wasp (a San Francisco publication similar in nature to the New York City-based Puck). Issues of Wasp are far scarcer to come by than Puck, and so I have to settle with showing the cartoon as it was afterward reprinted, in [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 20: Don’t Delay
With news that the Senate yesterday voted 60-40 to end debate on the financial regulations bill, we may finally be approaching the institution of new regulations (however imperfect they may be, but at least, an improvement). Below, excerpted from the March 1934 American Review of Reviews, shows how four-and-a-half years plus after the start of Great Depression I, [...]
