A Little History

How Wall Street got its name.

First, the local tribes just walked around it.

Then, when the British were about to land their forces from the water side, the Dutch had sense enough to know they were cooked, so they gave up.

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity." -- George S Patton

A wall - didn't work for New Amsterdam, or Hadrian, or the GDR, or the Chinese, or or or.