josh barro is a fellow at the manhattan institute. and historian beverly gage of yale university. she is author of "the day wall street exploded," a look at a bombing on wall street in 1920. sarah van gelder, i'll start with you. what do you think is going on here? what are these protests tapping into? >> well, i think they've managed to name the essence of what's going on for the 99% right now. for the last couple of decades middle class and poor people have seen wages stagnate. at first we were able to make up for it by working multiple jobs, by both mom and pop in the family working, by working longer hours. then we were able to make up for the stagnating wages by going deeper into debt, borrowing against the value of our house. but with the 2008 collapse we couldn't do that anymore. we started really feeling the pain of losing jobs, losing our homes in many indications, losing access to health care. i think at first a lot of americans really hoped that the washington establishment would come up with solutions. that hasn't happened. especially this summer. we saw how much gridl