The document discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States and its causes. It notes high unemployment, bankruptcy cases, foreclosure rates in many US cities, and policies seen as favoring corporate and managerial elites. It argues that Wall Street has come to symbolize perceived corporate excesses like huge bonuses, accounting manipulation, environmental pollution and excessive advertising. However, it says the movement has less relevance in India where the stock market benefits the government and promoters are often the same as managers. It advocates long-term, studied investment in shares rather than speculation.

1. Occupy Wall Street
-B.V.Raghunandan, SVS College, Bantwal
Post Graduate Department of Commerce,
SDM College, Ujire.
November 10, 2011

2. The Movement in the USA
• Raising
Unemployment
• Increasing
Bankruptcy Cases
• Government Aid
Going to the
Managerial Cadre
• Increasing
Foreclosure on
Mortgages
• Escalating Cost of
the US Government
acting as Global
Policeman
• Huge Expenditure of
Defence & Spying on
the World

3. Foreclosure of Mortgage-Arkansas Little
Rock-25.6%

4. Houston-Sugarland Bay Area
Foreclosure Rate- 26.9%

5. New Orleans- Foreclosure-36.25%

6. Oklahoma-Foreclosure 38.67%

7. Salt Lake City- Foreclosure-29.9%

8. Tulsa-Foreclosure-37.6%

9. Virginia Beach- Foreclosure-30.85%

10. Wrong Policies of the USA
• Increasing Cost of Education, Healthcare Etc
• Hire and Fire Policies
• Liberal Bankruptcy Laws
• Managerial Cadre is the Blue Eyed Boys
• Expensive Lifestyles of the Managerial Personnel and Huge Bonuses
• Borrowing without Any Restriction
• Taking Life Threatening Risks

11. Why at This Moment
• Balance between Capitalism
and Socialism
• Dominant Capitalism upto 1900
gave rise to Communism
through Russian Revolution
• By 1950, balance achieved with
China and USSR becoming
communistic
• By 1960, capitalism became
weak
• By 1980, capitalism became
strong, but with Gorbachav, it
became stronger
• By 1990, Communism was
considered dead
• By 2011, Labour is risisng

12. • Considered to be the
Why Wall Street? symbol of capitalism
• The present rise is
backed by the leftists
• Considered responsible
for corporate excesses
• Rendered many a
European Government
bankrupt
• Corporate Excesses are
on the increase
• About 63 alumni of
Harvard University
behind bars making
them suspect as
criminals

13. Corporate Evil
• Made the life of the
consumer expensive
• Anti-Consumer
• Anti-Employees
• Anti-Promoters
• Anti-Society
• Anti-Government
• Professional
Managers on the
move
• Blown up conflict of
interest

14. Corporate Excess
• Huge managerial remuneration
• Manipulation of accounts
• Polluting the environment
• Anti-social demand creation
• Immoral advertisement and
Excessive advertisement
• Board Room Politics
• Groupism, Big Brother and Yes
Boss

15. Indian Scenario
• The movement is meaningless and hence a failure
• Stock market is the symbol of socialism in India as the
Government is the biggest beneficiary from the stock
market
• Promoters and managers are one and the same
• Professional promoters have less role

16. Stock Exchange: A Misunderstood Concept
• A Casino
• Making a
Quick Buck
• Day Trading
• Passion
• Identification
• Don’t Miss
any
Opportunity
• Target Period

17. Shares: A Unique Investment
• Huge Dividends:
Annual, Interim, Specia
l Occasion
Dividend, Return of
Excess Cash
• Market Value
• Bonus Shares
• Share Splitting
• Voting Right
• Sponsored ADR Issue
• Merger & Acquisition

18. Requirement for Investment in Shares
• A Unique Investment
• Need for Education and
Training
• Need for a Lot of Study
• Life Time Investment
• Profit from the Whole
Portfolio and not from
Individual Stock
• Emotional Equanimity
• Not a Passion for Life
Time

19. Strategies for Investment
• Make a Study of Securities for a Considerable Period
• Buy the Stock, when the market is depressed
• Do not sell the shares after achieving a target profit
• Ignore the investment counseling given in the media
• Ignore the daily fluctuations in the market
• Forget any loss incurred incidentally

20. What should not be done…….
• Only saving must be
invested and not by
taking loans
• Retirement benefits
should not be
invested
• No Day Trading and
No Speculation
• No Derivatives
Trading
• Do not spend too
much time before
the trading terminal
• Do not take any tips

21. THANK YOU