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Greed is Good?

October 4, 2010
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Greed is Good?

The sequel to Oliver Stone’s 1987 classic “Wall Street,” a movie that I’ve been looking forward to seeing for some time, was released last week. The original starred Michael Douglas as the ruthless Gordon Gekko (whose character popularized the motto “Greed is Good”) and Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, a young, too-eager stockbroker caught up in trying to get to the top at any price. The sequel tacks a question mark on the end of Gekko’s famous motto, appropriate since we watched the financial system and stock market essentially melt down in the 2008-2009 bear market and recession. The...

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