America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.
Kevin Jones | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
Hollywood may be remaking Wall Street, but the days of Gordon Gekko and the "greed is good" mantra are behind us. Now it's becoming a reality in the investment community.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business
CEOs are getting major boosts in their pensions, while the pensions of most Americans have either disappeared or take a major hit.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business
Invoking greed to explain what happened with Wall Street actually explains little. The mystery isn't why people are greedy; it's how greed gets the better of them.
Evon Peter | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home
My wise grandfather, who helped raise me as a child in northern Alaska, was born in 1904 into an 'uncivilized' status. He was not a United States citizen, he could not vote, and had to endure business signs that read "no dogs, no natives."
Alice Singleton | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business
Attached with the bailout of the FMs and the remaining institutions surely to follow will be a veiled warning to the American taxpayer: "we had to bail them out. If they go down the tubes, so does America!"
Steven Weber | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business