Opinion: Ticket Replay: Stricken Wall St. traders protest with their own cars

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For a few days The Ticket is republishing some favorite items from the past political season. This one originally appeared in this space on Oct. 9, 2008, back during all the economic concerns over Wall Street’s turmoil and the bailouts and failures of some firms such as Lehman Bros.:

The Ticket has just received a breaking news photo of suddenly unemployed Wall Street workers taking the financial crisis into their own hands.

It’s rather shocking. Are we on the brink of social anarchy near the climax of a national election?

And nowhere else will you get this kind of complete spot coverage of the economic crisis’s impact on the presidential race between Barack Obama-Joe Biden and John McCain-Sarah Palin.

Click on the Read more line below to see what we mean.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Outraged unemployed and obviously hard-hit Lehman Bros. traders stage a protest at corporate headquarters, blockading the entrance with their own personal vehicles.