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From the Buttonwood Tree to the Internet Revolution
General
Pre-1900
1920's
1960's
1970's
1980's
First-Year Tales
May
17, 1792 - twenty-four brokers and merchants
signed the Buttonwood Agreement under a buttonwood tree (below)
in lower Manhattan. Wall Street has an illustrious history -
boom and bust, greed and fear, bankers and brokers, scoundrels
and rogues.
(http://online.wsj.com/media/info-nysetech05-buttonwood.jpg)
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