The Power of Wall Street NYSE: Wealth, Control, and Influence


Wall Street isn’t just a place—it’s a system. One that moves in the background while shaping everything in the foreground. From housing and health care to food prices and political campaigns, the financial sector doesn’t just influence power, it is power. Bailouts come faster than basic rights. Profits get prioritized over people. And the deeper you look, the clearer it gets: we’re not living in a free market—we’re living in a market that owns freedom. Wall Street didn’t just crash the economy. It rewrote the rules while we were busy trying to survive them.

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