New Museum a Shrine to Filthy Rich

[Robbien]

Source: ABC News

The titans of Wall Street have opened a new museum that pays tribute to the markets, the dollar and, of course, themselves. The museum is housed in the stunning former headquarters of the Bank of New York -- founded by Alexander Hamilton -- and is a block away from the New York Stock Exchange.

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"Our purpose is to bring Wall Street to Main Street, and to show the importance and richness of our financial markets and promote a deeper understanding," said museum president and CEO Lee Kjelleren.

Visitors who shell out $8 to tour this tribute to capitalism -- the only public museum of its kind -- will get to see an original Ford Motor Co. stock certificate signed by Henry Ford, a ticker tape from the great crash of 1929 and a Treasury bond issued to and signed by President George Washington.

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The gift shop is a dream for any hedge fund titan or Wall Street baron looking to redecorate. It is stocked with bull and bear cufflinks, money artwork and canceled stock shares from companies that include Pan American World Airlines, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., the American Tobacco Co. and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

But the ultimate gift for the money freak who has it all might just be a sofa made out of nickels, which sells for $120,000.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/BusinessTravel/story?id=4111101&page=1

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I think it sounds like a fascinating museum

But then, I used to work a block away from the NYSE, too, so maybe I'm part of the "shrine to the filthy rich" demographic. :eyes:

The history of money, from objects for bartering to valuable metals to the abstract concept of currency we have today, is absolutely fascinating, as is the history of how companies and then stock exchanges worked and work today.


I don't think a couch of nickels would be very comfortable, though.

[Burma Jones]

2. Lord John McCartney, he's the millionaire Irish Peer, filthy rich of course.

Oh I don't know, looks rather clean to me.

[catzies]

22. (in unison) "Who's that little old man?"

:D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. There IS a reason it's called "FILTHY rich." -nt

[shain from kane]

4. If it's a shrine to the filthy rich, why isn't the couch made of silver dollars?

And the price of admission - $8.00. What a bunch of cheapskates?
But I like the children's play area, where the kids can jump out of windows into a huge pile of colorful balls, as the National Debt rises, and the stock market falls.

[enlightenment]

6. Well Done! ROFL . . . n/t

[alfredo]

9. The kick a beggar display is a favorite with the teens.

[geomon666]

5. I guess that'll be the first place hit.

When these greedy pigs finally push the working class a little too far, I'm sure this museum will be made an example out of.

[JerseygirlCT]

7. "richness of our financial markets "

Too funny.

[Shoofly pie]

8. Filthy Rich ?

Yahoo News April 1st, 2003

"Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore got 30,000 stock options for joining the board of Apple Computer Inc.

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In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the company said it gave its new director Gore 30,000 stock options with an exercise price of $14.95."




AAPL is trading today at $175.00 with outlooks from $225.00 to $275.00


What degree of cleanliness to you assign to Al Gore?

[Robbien]

10. Your point is?

Are you saying that only you GOPers should be allowed to have money and that lowly undeserving Democrats should be poor?

Your hatred of lefties is showing.

[gratuitous]

11. Terrible, isn't it?

Gore didn't poison anyone, didn't impoverish anyone, merely served as a director for these large corporations (before winning an Oscar and becoming a Nobel laureate), and here he is getting money without foreclosing on one widow or freezing one orphan to death. Just awful!

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[dysfunctional press]

20. good for Al- he's earned every penny of it.

nt

[Old_Growth]

12. If I went there

I'd be tempted to trickle down all over the place.

[BrightKnight]

13. Most people that invest are not filthy rich.

The markets like most other things are biased in favor of the filthy rich. A lot more could be done to protect investor rights.

I would rather live in a Country where everyone has the opportunity to invest. Everyone should own a piece of America.

I would probably visit the museum if I were in the area.

[fasttense]

17. Despite all the retirement funds funneling money into the stock market.

The majority of American stocks are still owned by the top 10% richest Americans. The retirement funds are used to offset their loses.

[pipoman]

14. Every bus driver's retirement account,

blue collar worker's 401k, retiree's IRA, and every 12 year olds college savings fund benefit from the stock market. Hardly composed exclusively of the filthy rich.

[Hardrada]

16. And this has some people worried.

[damntexdem]

15. Don't think of it as a museum -- think of it as a cathedral:

A holy shrine to the Almighty Dollar.

[Orsino]

18. Mammon is their god.

Let it eat them.

[mitchum]

21. I don't care...as long as it has enough available wall space