Gordon Gekko
description: the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
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Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo · 3 Apr 2017 · 733pp · 179,391 words
330 Finance Rules 330 Out-Ponzi-ing Ponzi 332 The Ultimatum Game 335 A Neuroscience of Morality? 338 Is Finance Fair? 340 Finance and the Gordon Gekko Effect 345 Regulatory Culture 349 Environment Strikes Again 352 Moore’s Law versus Murphy’s Law 355 The Tyranny of Complexity 361 Chapter 11. Fixing
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well for investors, but also does good for society as a whole? Can we adapt finance to fit our concepts of fairness? FINANCE AND THE GORDON GEKKO EFFECT Part of the challenge in thinking about fairness in finance is culture. We don’t usually ask whether a market transaction is fair or
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is a slight adaptation of Michael Douglas’s actual line in the 1987 movie Wall Street, in which Douglas plays the sleazy yet charismatic financier Gordon Gekko. “The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” Douglas’s performance is riveting and one might wish
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can think of culture as a very large bundle of interrelated narratives, transmitted through the generations, and changing with the human environment. The character of Gordon Gekko, despite being the villain of Oliver Stone’s morality play, possesses traits that our culture perceives as important. Gekko is wealthy, highly skilled, physically attractive
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believe, instead, that fairness is an unimportant value might find themselves drawn to the prosecutorial side of the law, or high-pressure sales, or indeed, Gordon Gekko’s caricature of predatory finance. Not everyone in those professions will share those values, of course, but individuals with those values may find such professions
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can we prevent the next Bernie Madoff from bilking billions from retirees who thought that he was their friend? How can we prevent real-life Gordon Gekkos from convincing young minds that greed is always good? Psychologist Philip Zimbardo put it succinctly enough: resist situational influences.20 Since his original prison experiment
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require unprecedented levels of collaboration and collective intelligence. Finance is the most efficient means for facilitating this type of collective intelligence ever discovered. Contrary to Gordon Gekko’s (fictional) speech, this efficiency isn’t a result of greed being good. The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis tells us that profit-taking alone isn’t
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Symptoms Chapter 10. Finance Behaving Badly Finance Rules Out-Ponzi-ing Ponzi The Ultimatum Game A Neuroscience of Morality? Is Finance Fair? Finance and the Gordon Gekko Effect Regulatory Culture Environment Strikes Again Moore’s Law versus Murphy’s Law The Tyranny of Complexity Chapter 11. Fixing Finance An Ounce of Prevention
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
assets, and unionized workers are bamboozled into going along with a deal that will leave them without their good jobs and pensions. The corporate raider Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, does get his comeuppance in the end because his stockbroker, the Charlie Sheen character who provided him with the tradable inside
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it in turn—ditto with financialization and deregulation, the Law and Economics movement, the atrophying of antitrust, the lionization of guys like Jack Welch and Gordon Gekko, the digital revolution, increasingly short-term thinking, only the rich getting richer, and the explosion of corporate lobbying in Washington.*1 The Harvard Business School
SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
SkyBridge banner in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street II, and even landed a cameo. He further enhanced his profile with his well-received book, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, which was a timely self-critical reflection on Wall Street’s culture of greed. His rise has been extraordinary, and Davos has played no small
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many years earlier, half the world away. The tale of junk bond king Mike Milken is one of triumph, tragedy, redemption, and comeback. In the Gordon Gekko-ish 1980s, this ingenious financier revolutionized the financial system by opening up capital markets to companies which had previously not been considered creditworthy. He created
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, and Paul Tudor Jones have warned of the potentially dramatic consequences of inequality and suggested measures to reduce it. Even Asher Edelman, the real-life Gordon Gekko on whom the movie Wall Street’s ruthlessly greedy protagonist was partly modeled, has turned dissident, arguing for the self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders
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16, 2016, http://www.vox.com/2016/4/8/11371712/panama-papers-tax-haven-zucman. 17. Das, The Age of Stagnation, 208. 18. Kali Holloway, “Gordon Gekko for Bernie: Inspiration for “Wall Street” Villain Endorses Sanders for President,” Salon, March 12, 2016, http://www.salon.com/2016/03/12/gordon_gecko_for
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Goethe University Frankfurt, 142 Goldman Sachs, 23, 36, 44, 52, 76, 84, 88, 91, 121, 136, 151, 156, 165–166, 168, 184, 189, 217 Goodbye Gordon Gekko, 24 Google, 40, 114, 199 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 16 Gordon, Robert, 220 Gorman, James, 89 Grant, Adam M., 104 Great Britain, 9 Great Depression, 34, 36
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy
by Robert A. Sirico · 20 May 2012 · 267pp · 70,250 words
Is Not Good–and Why You Can Get More of It with Socialism ... What Is Greed? The Role of Profits Excess Profits? Moral Profits Beyond Gordon Gekko The Apostle of Selfishness The Socialist Mirage The Personable Person and the Market Suggestions for Further Reading CHAPTER 6 - The Idol of Equality The Value
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can excel in a socially useful business. In this way, capitalism provides the greedy person a socially beneficent alternative to exploitation. Remember villainous business executive Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street? “Greed is good,” he claimed. Unfortunately, many real-life defenders of capitalism argue along the same lines
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standard of living would be systematically reduced until we reached a primitive stage. A world without monetary calculation would be a world in disarray. Beyond Gordon Gekko Another way to reflect on the morality of business enterprise is to look at those who are economically successful and attempt to discern their motivation
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trust in the whole industry—a negative outcome for everyone involved. This snapshot of Francois Michelin does not, of course, disprove the existence of unprincipled Gordon Gekkos in the world of high finance and enterprise. But there is nothing in business or the market economy that mandates a selfish dog-eat-dog
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ethic. The Apostle of Selfishness We began this chapter with Gordon Gekko announcing that greed is good. As he goes on to say to the shareholders of the fictional Teldar Paper Corporation, “Greed clarifies, cuts through, and
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
by Reeves Wiedeman · 19 Oct 2020 · 303pp · 100,516 words
the set for the movie Wall Street. WeWork put up a poster of Michael Douglas in French cuffs and suspenders to mark the location of Gordon Gekko’s fictional office. The space was a more appropriate setting than WeWork’s previous offices for a visit from Jimmy Lee, a legendary banker at
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home, but he felt bashful sharing the valuation with his friends and family. At a party in May to celebrate an expansion of WeWork’s Gordon Gekko headquarters, several of New York’s biggest landlords, including Steven Roth, the septuagenarian founder of Vornado, stood under a net of white and black balloons
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Time Crisis video game console. Their employees were left to pick up the mess. * * * A FEW WEEKS LATER, WeWork employees arrived at the company’s Gordon Gekko headquarters one morning to find that a large glass wall in Adam’s office was cracked. The night before, an employee had apparently broken it
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share 222 Broadway for several months while the renovations to WeWork’s new space were finished. The Guardian moved into the twenty-third floor, where Gordon Gekko’s office once stood; WeWork squeezed its employees onto twenty-two. By and large, Guardian employees were content with the arrangement and glad to have
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. A few months after Adam’s departure, Miguel stopped cold while walking past a neon sign on the wall at 222 Broadway, WeWork’s old Gordon Gekko headquarters. The sign read, DON’T QUIT YOUR DAYDREAM. Miguel had stayed at WeWork after his cofounder’s ouster, but it was even less clear
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
by Matt Taibbi · 8 Apr 2014 · 455pp · 138,716 words
business culture, although probably not the effect its heavy-handed lefty director Oliver Stone expected. While the rest of America understood Michael Douglas’s iconic Gordon Gekko character as a villain, and saw his famed “greed is good” speech as incisive satire, many aspiring Wall Street traders sincerely thought—and still think
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fraction of his rumored $8 billion personal fortune) that he immediately went out and bought a $155 million Picasso (Le Rêve) and a $60 million, Gordon Gekko–style beach house in the Hamptons (right next to his existing $18 million house on the same beach). But later in the year, SAC itself
Python for Algorithmic Trading: From Idea to Cloud Deployment
by Yves Hilpisch · 8 Dec 2020 · 1,082pp · 87,792 words
output: In [25]: repl = 'My name is %s, I am %d years old and %4.2f m tall.' In [26]: print(repl % ('Gordon Gekko', 43, 1.78)) My name is Gordon Gekko, I am 43 years old and 1.78 m tall. In [27]: repl = 'My name is {:s}, I am {:d} years old
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and {:4.2f} m tall.' In [28]: print(repl.format('Gordon Gekko', 43, 1.78)) My name is Gordon Gekko, I am 43 years old and 1.78 m tall. In [29]: name, age, height = 'Gordon Gekko', 43, 1.78 In [30]: print(f'My name is {name:s}, I am {age
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:d} years old and \ {height:4.2f}m tall.') My name is Gordon Gekko, I am 43 years old and 1.78m tall. Defines a string template the “old” way. Prints the template with the values replaced the “old
The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel · 3 Oct 2016 · 504pp · 126,835 words
for its masters was not a sign of London bouncing back after the Great Recession. Nor was it the site of an annual meeting between Gordon Gekko, Sherman McCoy, Patrick Bateman, and their modern, real-life incarnations in the asset management industry. The owners were “wealthy individuals from the Middle East” who
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larger trend of intermediaries investing, advising, managing, and facilitating companies. Few characters have symbolized that early era of latter-day financial capitalism as much as Gordon Gekko, the villain of the 1987 movie Wall Street played by Michael Douglas. Barring his criminal behavior, Gekko is in several ways representative of the financial
Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words
shift toward Sun Tzu.10 Sun Tzu’s influence was attested to by two references in popular culture. In the movie Wall Street, the villainous Gordon Gekko advises Bud Fox: “I don’t throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun Tzu, THE ART OF WAR. Every battle
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Fox caught between his blue-collar father, a foreman and trade unionist who represented the virtues of hard and honest labor, and the ruthless, cynical Gordon Gekko, a corporate raider whose motto was “greed is good.” Bud became wealthy by following Gekko’s methods until he realized that a plan to buy
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by Simon Johnson and James Kwak · 29 Mar 2010 · 430pp · 109,064 words
Salomon, would cement its status as the paradigmatic bank of the 1980s, the same decade that produced the original Oliver Stone Wall Street movie, with Gordon Gekko’s famous “Greed is good” speech. Looking back, however, Salomon seems so … small. When the Business Week story was written, it had $68 billion in
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to be understood by ordinary mortals was born. Also in 1987, Oliver Stone’s movie Wall Street was released, with its memorable antihero, corporate raider Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas). Although the movie’s story shows the corruption and ultimate downfall of Gekko, it is remembered for his “Greed is good
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movie changed my life. Once I saw it I knew that I wanted to get into such and such business. I wanted to be like Gordon Gekko.’ ”73 Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis’s 1989 memoir, an ironic antibildungsroman in which the hero is fascinated but ultimately repelled by life at Salomon
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, except a strengthened government guarantee. Defending the huge bonuses in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London in October 2009, Goldman Sachs executive Brian Griffiths went Gordon Gekko one better by invoking Jesus: “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is a recognition of self-interest.… We have to tolerate the
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