How an Ex-Wall-Street Power Player Embraced the Occupy Movement
As president of the Pacific Exchange in the late 1990s, Warren Langley oversaw the West Coast’s biggest financial center, a trading floor where some 17 million shares of stock changed hands daily. Though he served at the pleasure of traders and investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, he is no longer interested in pleasing them. Yesterday, he stood on a hillside in San Francisco’s Financial District in front Morgan Stanley’s and Goldman Sachs’ regional headquarters to declare his support for Occupy Wall Street West, a coalition of 50 groups planning a slew of anti-bank protests Friday.
“From the inside, I watched Goldman Sachs, the big banks, the hedge funds bet our money and then get bailed out when they lost,” said Langley, surrounded by protesters holding images of a devious-looking Mr. Moneybags (Monopoly) character.
“I saw corporations and the 1 percent buy our congressmen and senators and then pay no taxes, get subsidies, andmove jobs overseas. This is our last chance to level the playing field and let you and our kids and grandkids have the opportunities that I started with.”
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Really? Fox and CNN told me occupiers were all homeless hippies who want free money.
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