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Sep 17, 2020 · The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed – for lack of a better word – is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary...
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Vital Signs: 50 years ago Milton Friedman told us greed was...
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Is greed bad? Can you trace the financial crisis of 2008 back to the greed of Michael Milkin, Ivan Boesky, and Carl Icahn? These are the Wall Street traders upon whom the movie was based. Greed causes the inevitable irrational exuberance that creates asset bubbles. Then still more greed blinds investors to the warning signs of collapse. In 2005, th...
Or is greed, as Gordon Gekko pointed out, good? Perhaps, if the first caveman didn't greedily want cooked meat and a warm cave, he never would have bothered to figure out how to start a fire. Economists claim that the free market forces if left to themselves without government interference, unleashes the good qualities of greed. Capitalism itself i...
President Ronald Reagan'spolicies matched the "greed is good" mood of 1980s America. He promised to reduce government spending, taxes, and regulation. He wanted to get government out of the way to allow the forces of supply and demand to rule the market unfettered. In 1982, Reagan kept his promise by deregulating banking. It led to the savings an...
Why hasn't the "Greed is good" philosophy worked in real life? The United States has never had a truly free market. The government has always intervened through its spending and tax policies. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton imposed tariffs and taxes to pay for debt incurred from the Revolutionary War. Debt, and taxes to pay for it, increase...
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Dec 8, 2017 · Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street turns 30 this month. Its infamous character’s mantra, “greed is good”, seems oddly prescient with greater inequality and an even more rampant culture ...
- Siobhan Lyons
Sep 29, 2018 · Thirty years ago, in the iconic scene from the film Wall Street, the antagonist Gordon Gekko declares that “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good”. The film and the line in particular,...
Sep 21, 2020 · 50 years ago Milton Friedman declared that greed was good, but there was always more to the story – as well as making profits firms hold the unique power to achieve social objectives, writes UNSW Business School's Richard Holden.
Jan 24, 2024 · In this deep dive, we'll peel back the layers of Gekko's legacy, exploring the dark underbelly of his "greed is good" philosophy. We'll dissect the psychological allure of wealth and power while examining the human and societal costs of unchecked ambition.
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Apr 7, 2014 · Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea. Not long ago, the pursuit of commercial self-interest was largely reviled. How did we come to accept it? By John Paul Rollert. April 7,...
