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America's Financial Center
What is Wall Street?

Wall Street is an eight-block-long avenue in New York City’s Financial District where most of the country's biggest banks have, at one time, had their headquarters, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America. It dates back to the 1700s with the establishment of two institutions: the New York Stock Exchange and New York City’s first official slave market.


Wall Street eventually came to symbolize the financial center of the US. The street's mythos has evolved into a cultural phenomenon, giving rise to popular movies and books.



Some historians believe the English named “Wall Street” after a wall the Dutch built to keep them out (it runs down roughly the same path as the wall). Others argue that Wall Street could have been named after the Walloons (also known as “the Waal”), the French-speaking early Dutch settlers of Manhattan (read history).


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A Fantasy in the Mind
A primer on dreams

Every night, we spend about two hours dreaming—mostly during REM phases when the body is paralyzed, with brain waves closely resembling those during waking periods.


The hippocampus—the brain's memory center—plays a central role in dream construction. Half of all dreams draw from specific real-life experiences, and patients with a damaged hippocampus have been shown to experience less detailed dreams.



Early history is filled with examples of vivid dreams interpreted as prophecy, divine revelation, or a bridge between the living and the dead. Beyond their meaning, psychologists have variously suggested the purpose of dreams is to process difficult emotions, consolidate memories, mentally rehearse real-life experiences, or they are just a byproduct of the complex brain.

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