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Bank Meetings and White-Collar Crime
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Shareholder meetings.
Where do you go if you have a sense of grievance, a fondness for cliché, and too much time on your hands? The obvious answer is "the internet," but true connoisseurs, and those who prefer to do their shouting face to face, know that the best answer is "corporate shareholder meetings." Nothing particularly happens at these meetings -- all the big institutional shareholders who own most of the shares vote ahead of the meeting by proxy, so the meeting itself is just a formality -- but they're a rare opportunity to show up at a random hotel ballroom and yell at some rich people.