Wall Street’s Long History of Protests: NYT Interviews Steve Fraser [video, 3 minutes 18 seconds]

If there is a physical place that represents the intersection of democracy and capitalism in America, it is probably at the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. Protest movements have been drawn to Wall Street — both the physical location and the abstract idea — since the founding of the country.

DealBook spoke to the historian Steve Fraser, whose books include “Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace” and “Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life,” about the groups that have gathered there in the past.