I took the 'Financial Crisis Tour' in downtown Manhattan. This is what happened.

See the New York Stock Exchange! See the Charging Bull! See the former offices of Lehman Brothers!

Wall Street tourists
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On one mild morning in August, Sanford "Sandy" Wexler stood across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, where he waited for others to arrive. Wexler, short, slim, and middle-aged, wore a blue button-down shirt and beige baseball cap that displayed the words "New York." While in college, he had worked as a messenger picking-up and delivering "buy" and "sell" slips for a brokerage firm located just two blocks away. Later in life, he became a finance reporter and served as a technical advisor on Oliver Stone's 1987 film, Wall Street, ensuring that the jargon during the trading floor scenes sounded realistic.

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