Conor Sen writing at the popular site Minyanville:
"The medium is the message," Marshall McLuhan's slogan from 1964, is a notion that's come up often this year as protests have rocked the world, from the Arab Spring to those in Southern Europe and the UK. Many have focused on social media changing the nature of protests and their coverage, and while I won't deny that impact, that's not the point I'm trying to make.
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The difficult part of following and writing about markets is there's an implicit against mixing politics with financial analysis. But as we're seeing every day in Europe, trying to isolate the two is no longer possible. I have no idea if Occupy Wall Street will matter in the long run. But as a believer that the level of income inequality in this country is unsustainable; that any change in that status quo will have a profound impact on the financial and economic landscape; and that the status quo will eventually end one way or another, I'm watching the events unfolding in Zuccotti Park with increased interest.
Minyanville
1) This guy's a financial analyst and he's at least a little sympathetic to #OWS
2) The financial analysts know that income inequality is unsustainable long run
3) Politics and finance are become inseparable because of #2. Everyone knows this can't go on. Some view that as a reason to think about what they are doing; others, as a signal to get what they can while the getting's good. We can possibly make allies of the first group.