Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the New York Stock Exchange and has since spread like wildfire to cities around the country, may be a game-changer.
To those who remember the history of 1929, the current crisis and rising public anger bears a painfully familiar ring. It happened once before -- a vital chapter in the ongoing story of how an old regime dies and a new one is born.