The “Three Honest Men” of Wall Street: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 43
Frederick Burr Opper’s June 18, 1884 cover for Puck magazine — The “Three Honest Men” of Wall Street Declare for Blaine — depicts, of course, the furthest thing from “Honest Men”. Shown in operatic pirate garb, is Wall Street’s top pirate of the latter 19th century — Jay Gould — flanked by two of the [...]
The Shorn Lamb of Wall Street, 1882: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 39
In both yesterday’s and the day before’s, William Vanderbilt 1881 sequential comic strip episodes, amongst the things shown being done, was shearing lambs. In Wall Street parlance, “shearing lambs” refers to taking money away from inexperienced investors. Including stealing it from the general public. The mere fact that this is part of the Stock Market’s lingo, says a world about [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 14: Croesus, 1873
From the Financial Panic of 1873, with cover art by Frank Bellew, this (New York) Daily Graphic cover — September 24, 1873 — depicts four leading Wall Street Stock Manipulators & Monopolists, as a four-faced monstrous “Croesus“. Croesus was king of Lydia (a Greek province) from 560 to 546 B.C., who became a figure of myth renowned [...]
Caricature vs. the Corporation # 01: The Garden Party of the Monopolists by Joseph Keppler
“With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices [...]
