Occupy Wall Street. A minor leftist interest group which presumes to speak on behalf of 99% of Americans. Do they? Even if not, are their grievances well-founded? Are they even self-consistent? Is this really about anti-corporatism, or is that a red herring? Whose interests, exactly, does the OWS group represent, if not Americans at large? What is “Wall Street’ and how much of the finger-pointing of OWS genuinely belongs there? This is the first of a series of articles intended to address these questions.