An airplane skimmed over the Manhattan skyline early today with a banner that read:
“Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired.”
The banner was reportedly paid for by Lucy Nobbe, a vice president with Wedbush Morgan Securities in St. Louis,
Missouri broker, according to Fortune Magazine. The stunt comes during a turbulent week in the U.S. and world
markets as a result of Standard & Poor’s downgrading of America’s credit rating for the first time since 1917.
Nobbe told Fortune:
“I originally wanted to fly it over Washington, D.C., but learned that you can’t do that. So I chose Wall Street
instead, but didn’t specifically intend it to fly over S&P. I’m just a mother from St. Louis who feels the only reason
we got downgraded was people in politics.”
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