Greed Is Good

What Next, Occupy? Revise Gordon Gekko

Carla Seaquist | Posted 02.22.2012

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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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What Wall Street Thinks of Wall Street

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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The New "Greed Is Good"

Cindy Handler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cindy Handler

Now, just in time for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the GOP leaders are insisting that, vast evidence to the contrary, we all need to support the inequitable policies that favor rich white men.

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Greed Explains the Disasters and the Lying Afterwards

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

Middle class workers are the ones who die in coal mines and on oil rigs. Afterwards, CEOs say anything to save the bottom line -- the one that will determine their bonuses.

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Alan S. Blinder: Greed Is Not Good

wsj.com | ALAN S. BLINDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Finally: The Death of "Greed Is Good"

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom D'Antoni

The Greed Is Good pack are thieves. They've stolen our money, our hope and any sense of safety we had. And then we rewarded their greed with more money.

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