Economy
Wall Street trash became parade confetti
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In a beautifully literal metaphor for throwing money into the wind, the iconic ticker-tape parade only exists because Wall Street generated a sickening amount of paper waste. Before digital trading, stock quotes printed endlessly onto thin paper strips. When a parade went by, lazy finance workers just threw their trash out the window, creating a majestic urban snowstorm fueled entirely by financial anxiety.
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