Long before GameStop, bucket shops challenged the legitimacy of Wall Street
- Written by Robbie Moore, Lecturer, University of Tasmania
'Watching the tape or watching the wheel - what is the difference morally?', illustration by Will Crawford c.1912
Puck Magazine/Library of CongressThe gleeful manipulation of GameStop’s share price is not the first time amateur investors have created a legitimacy crisis on Wall Street.
In the late 19th century, so-called “bucket shops&r...





