A Wall Street trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. "It’s a cheesy line we like to say but it’s true: ‘Look how far we haven’t come,’ " said Cahan. A recent Washington Post analysis found that many of the people who helped craft those safeguards now work on Wall Street. But for a pure view of the market, “Black Monday” is unique, and it harks back to Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” as much as it does anything currently on television. Those who star in the series say this isn’t as period a story line as one would hope.

Source: Washington Post January 01, 2019 10:52 UTC