Gordon Gekko

And Lukewarm Was His Name-O

Will Durst | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Gordon Gekko, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Seamus the Dog, George W. Bush, Michael Douglas, Redroom, Political Comedy, Satire, Political Satire, Comedy News
Will Durst

You don't need a psychoanalyst to detect the latent theme running through the endorsements currently showering Mitt Romney like broken rain gutters pouring down on a concrete toadstool. And that premise is ennui.

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'You're My King'

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Mad Men, Wall Street, Oliver Stone, Pete Campbell, Signal 30, Mad Men Season Five, Don Draper, Jimmy Stuart, Fifty News
Steven C. Eisner

This week's episode, "Signal 30," takes us inside the troubled head of straight-laced Peter Campbell, where we discover a young man repeatedly tempting fate.

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A Tone-Deaf Tin-Eared Borg

Will Durst | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump, Redroom, Comedy News
Will Durst

It's a rash that erupts only when Willard's name tops the national polls. A serious knee-buckling case of Buyer's Remorse. Of course the clueless plastic smile of an aged Ken doll hasn't acted as a sufficient antidote either.

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What Next, Occupy? Revise Gordon Gekko

Carla Seaquist | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Greed, Oliver Stone, Obama Kansas Speech, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Corporate Greed, Greed Is Good, Wall Street Movie, Wall Street Protest, American Culture Greed, Business News
Carla Seaquist

With the encampments folding or forcibly shut down -- for reasons of public health or winter weather -- and with eulogies already appearing, what next for the earthquake known as Occupy Wall Street?

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FBI Tries Techniques Used On Serial Killers To Fight White Collar Crime

Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Fraud, Behavioral Analysis Unit, Wall Street, Fbi, Hannibal Lecter, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, The Green River Killer, Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Ridgway, Citigroup, Business News

NEW YORK (Matthew Goldstein) - Bernard Madoff -- the architect of history's biggest Ponzi scheme -- and Gary Ridgway - the Green River killer -- w...

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How Much Is Enough for Big Pharma?

Cliff Schecter | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, David Sirota, Donald Trump, Bp, Merck, Hip Replacement, Drug Reimportation, Bulk Negotiation, Ed Blizzard, Johnson & Johnson, Congress, Big Pharma, Prescriptions, Depuy, Gordon Gekko, Larry Barnett, Mccarthy & Nabers, Cobalt Poisoning, Wall Street, Blizzard, Chromium Poisoning, Cliff Schecter, Vioxx, Deepwater Horizon, ASR Hip Replacement, Gulf of Mexico, Black Swan, David Floyd, Steve Lendman, Business News
Cliff Schecter

Nowhere is this greed more pervasive than among those companies responsible for the health of roughly 300 million of Americans: Big Pharma.

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Who's to Blame for the NINJA Generation?

William Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Matt Taibbi, Matt-Taibbi-Rolling-Stone, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street Regulation, Wall Street, Michael Douglas, Politics News
William Astore

Why are so many young people looking at bleak futures with fewer jobs and lower incomes and no reserves? Could it be that Wall Street and its craven machinations are somehow to blame?

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Nouriel Roubini: Gordon Gekko Is Back

Project Syndicate | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Nouriel Roubini New Book, Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini, Wall Street, Wall Street 2, Business News

A generation later, the sequel to Wall Street -- to be released next month -- sees Gekko released from jail and returned to the financial world. His r...

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Green Energy Boys Not So Different Than the Good Ole Oil Boys

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Greed, Sam Zell, Flip, Lehman, LA Times, Soros, Cds, Suicide, Women in Business, Swap, Fianncial Crisis, London, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Gordon Gekko, Oil Industry, Chicago Tribune, Hedge Funds, Oil, Banks, Green Energy, Asia, Wall Street, Electric Cars, Green News
Vivian Norris

The Green Boys actually pretend to be about equality and sustainability and democracy, but they are just as obsessed as the oil and Wall Street guys with accumulating more money and power.

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France's Gordon Gecko Likely Off to Prison

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Gordon Gekko, Entering False Data Into Computers, Trading, France, Jerome Kerviel, Wall Street, Michael Douglas, Business News
Robert Weller

The Gordon-Gecko-of-France's sentence was pathetically short compared to the 20 years the fictional character played by Michael Douglas was ordered to serve.

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What Wall Street Thinks of Wall Street

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Anderson, Credit Default Swaps, Bob Mondello, Media, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Wall Street 2, Movie, Greed, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Shia LaBeouf, The American Prospect, Igor Kirman, Greed Is Good, Rick Newman, Gordon Gekko, U.S. News & World Report, Nouriel Roubini, CBS MoneyWatch.Com, Money, Oliver Stone, Film, Business, Npr, Newsday, Investing, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street, Eric Schurenberg, Banking, Martin Fridson, Banks, Banking Crisis, Warren Buffett, Tim Fernholz, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

With movie critics split on the film, here's a look at what Wall Street's real bankers -- and those who cover them -- had to say about the movie, its 1987 original, and the larger-than-life Gordon Gekko.

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More Bad Guys, More Investigations

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Finra, Insider Trading, Wall Street, Brokerage Firms, Valero, BHP Billiton, Sanofi-Aventis, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bernie Madoff, Business News
Dan Dorfman

With the mergers and acquisitions game heating up, the opportunities to beat the system with inside knowledge of non-publicly announced deals have become much greater.

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Goodbye Gordon Gekko

Michael Martin | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Greed, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Oliver Stone, Maria Bartiromo, Books News
Michael Martin

Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, doesn't think greed serves anyone, and he's so disgusted with it and what's happening on Wall Street that he's written a book.

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Tiger Woods: 18 Holes Here I Come!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Marion Barry, Wall Street, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, The Masters, Marv Albert, Evelyn Wood, Eliot Spitzer, Sports News
Andy Ostroy

As "Wall Street's" Gordon Gekko famously opined, "Greed is good." And Tiger's comeback clearly demonstrates how quickly the greedy, bored, desperate golf industry will welcome him back with open arms.

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Wasn't the SEC Supposed to be the 'Investor's Advocate?'

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Elizabeth Warren, Insider Trading, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Accounting Fraud, Timothy Geithner, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Brooksley Born, Business News
Joanne Bamberger

The SEC has been badly weakened by Congress and now Congress blames the SEC for not keeping investors safe. There were warnings during the process, but no one listened.

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Alan S. Blinder: Greed Is Not Good

wsj.com | ALAN S. BLINDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Adam Smith, Senate Banking Committee, Christopher Dodd, Invisible Hand, Financial Crisis, Capitalism, Greed Is Good, Bernie Madoff, Recession, Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

When economists first heard Gekko's now-famous dictum, "Greed is good," they thought it a crude expression of Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" -- which i...

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Irresistible Glam

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Cadbury Plc, Skype, Disney, Kraft Foods Inc., Ebay, Wall Street, Oliver Stone, Marvel, M&A, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

Our obsession with deal leaks and scoops subsided along with the boom that fueled it, resulting in a column that trained its occasionally gimlet eye on everything from basic business reporting to Analystgate.

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Bardem Turns Down Roll In Wall St. 2

forbes.com | Brian Wingfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Shia LeBoeuf, Wall Street, Oliver Stone, Javier Bardem, Wall Street 2, Business News

LONDON -- He was the stony-faced psychotic killer in No Country for Old Men, wielding a cattle gun as he took out his victims one by one. So it was on...

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Goldman Announces Record Profit and Bonuses. So Much for Financial Reform and an End to Greed on Wall Street

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Tarp, Business News
Andy Ostroy

Why aren't we passing legislation to ensure that Goldman's highly paid execs, not the American taxpayer, foot the bill of the next bailout?

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The Return of Gordon Gekko

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Gordon Gekko, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Suntrust-Banks, Wall Street, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Financial Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Securities and Exchange Commission, Citigroup, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Wall Street speculation has it that some investors may have been privy to government actions involving a number of these banks at the outset of the financial crisis or to their financial results.

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Rethinking Wall Street: Why Bernie Madoff Makes Gordon Gekko Look Like Zac Efron

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oliver Stone, Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas, Economy, Jonathan Kim, Wall Street, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Meltdown, Martha Stewart, Economic Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Corporate Greed, Economic Meltdown, Zac Efron, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

But as the sordid details of the economic meltdown are revealed, it's clear that Gordon Gekko has nothing on the real corporate supervillains walking freely among us today.

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Wall Street 2: Minyanville's Script

minyanville.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Megan Fox, Bank of America, Shia LaBeouf, Wall Street, Oliver Stone, Wall Street 2, Minyanville, Business News

Minyanville writes its own version of the anticipated sequel. ...

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AIG and the Undeserving Rich

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reagan Administration, David Lynch Movie, Xe, Charles Blow, Bailout, Economic Meltdown, Cnbc, Aig, Blue Velvet Movie, Blackwater, Bank Bailout, Rick Santelli, " American Film Institute, Financial Crisis, Gordon Gekko, AIG Bailout, AIG CEO Edward Liddy, Bonuses, Economic Crisis, "Joe the Plumber, A.I.G., Congress, Undeserving Rich, American International Group, The Daily Show, Jim Cramer, Taxpayer Bonuses, Oliver Stone Movie, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Jon Stewart, New York Times, Plutocracy, Ed Gillespie, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Edward Liddy, Bonus Controversy, Wall Street Movie, Week in Review, Business News
Joseph A. Palermo

For years unbridled capitalism has beat down and bloodied the working middle class in this country. Those chickens are now coming home to roost.

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John Thain's $35,000 Toilet

Matt Littman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Gekko, Citigroup, Cnbc, John McCain, Brooklyn Bridge, Madoff, Thain, Robin Hood, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Business News
Matt Littman

What the hell happens on a $35,000 toilet that makes it so special? While you're sitting on it, does it magically transport you to the Maldives?

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"Wall Street" Turns 20

Fortune | Telis Demos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, Oliver Stone, Michael Douglas, Business News

With buyout kings swimming in wealth, markets in turmoil, and Ray-Bans back in fashion, it might seem like Wall Street has stood still since 1987. But...

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