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NICHOLAS ROBERTS/AFP/Getty Images Demonstrators protest the proposed $700 billion Wall Street bail-out in front of the New York Stock Exchange in the Financial District in New York on September 25, 2008. In response to the global financial crisis, protesters, from a variety of activist groups, denounced the capitalist system, Wall Street, and the administration of ...
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Demonstrators protest the proposed $700 billion Wall Street bail-out in front of the New York Stock Exchange in the Financial District in New York on September 25, 2008. In response to the global financial crisis, protesters, from a variety of activist groups, denounced the capitalist system, Wall Street, and the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
Joshua Keating is a former associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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