The 1% (some of them) speak, you might be surprised...

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Even as the three-week-old protests against Wall Street grow louder, Wall Street itself remains silent.

As the “Occupy Wall Street” movement continues to spread across the nation, the traders, bankers and hedge-fund managers targeted as the “1 percent” have barely weighed in on the protests.

The few that have opined tend to express sympathy, if not always support, for the movement.

“The protesting is a statement the future is very clouded for a lot of people,” Larry Fink, CEO of giant investment firm BlackRock, said earlier this week at in event in Toronto.
A sign in the windows of the Chicago Board of Trade overlooking the Occupy Chicago demonstrators mocks the protesters.
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A sign in the windows of the Chicago Board of Trade overlooking the Occupy Chicago demonstrators mocks the protesters.

“These are not lazy people sitting around looking for something to do,” he added. “We have people losing hope and they’re going into the street, whether it’s justified or not.”

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