Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

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BULL MARKET

Why, right across the square -- Federal Hall, the very steps where George Washington took his oath of office. All your founding fathers stood there, tallying the bill they charge for human rights. This is democracy, they said, anyone can pay to play..... Today, I got security guards to keep the rif raf off my historic cobble stone. But, who needs an office when your lobby is as big as mine? Ha! Private deals take place in all kinds of halls, the federal as well as, those of then Empire state. So, come, walk down my street. Let me sell you another tower, only, this one will be higher than before, so I can watch you jump in the season of my fall. The tall trees of commerce cast their shadows onto maiden and pearl, blotting out the light for all who the little men who walk beneath. But still, the island where I live is a magnet for the world. Read the smoke signals of my billowing pyres of cash... I keep them burning through the night!

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