# Matt Stoller on Markets: “Immediately after 9/11, as the stock market swooned, Wall St…”

> Immediately after 9/11, as the stock market swooned, Wall Street and corporate America issued stock options to their own… — 2.5K likes, 807 reposts on X.

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- **Rank today:** #8 of 14
- **Posted:** 2021-09-11 17:42 UTC

Immediately after 9/11, as the stock market swooned, Wall Street and corporate America issued stock options to their own execs. Virtually no one knows about this story but it's perhaps the most evil display of malevolent greed in modern U.S. history. https://t.co/KKOaTgb1Py https://t.co/qFYPMljuhc

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