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as The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe and Liar’s Poker (1989) by Michael Lewis, as well as films such as Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987), glamorized life on the Street even as they pretended to demonize it. A tidal wave of money poured into various financial instruments as the
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Wallace, Henry, 259 Wall Street, 220–23, 381–82, 391 financial crisis of 2007–2008, 27, 373–85, 443 financial deregulation and, 338–43 Wall Street (movie), 338 Wall Street Crash of 1929, 27, 221–24, 222, 242 Wall Street Journal, 138 Walmart, 293, 356, 423 Walton, Sam, 293 war bonds, 82 Ward, Aaron
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of the CIA, and 41st president of the United States (1989–93). 21 The “Greed Is Good” speech by Gordon Gekko, the hero of Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street, was based on a commencement address at the University of California, 1986, by the convicted inside-dealing stock trader Ivan Boesky, who said, “I think
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increase. The available evidence suggests that this is precisely the case.’19 The Wall Street Journal claims that the 1980s’ criticism of greed, shown in Oliver Stone’s movie Wall Street, had disappeared by the 1990s as everyone indulged in share ownership: Today, even our lowest earners see that the Decade of Greed and its
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Federation 134 Victorian Gas and Fuel Corporation 138 Vodafone 212 Voice of America 80 Volker, William 94 W. R. Grace 69 Wal-Mart 222 Wall Street movie 175 Wall Street Journal 99, 100–101, 174, 176 Walt Disney Educational Media Company 70 War Advertising Council 30 Warner & Swasey 37 Washington Consensus 148–152 Washington
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marriage, which at the time was intensely controversial (the year of the film’s release, interracial marriage was illegal in seventeen U.S. states). Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street opened up a public discussion about corporate greed, so much so that the lead character, Gordon Gekko, is frequently mentioned in the context of the
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’s memoir of his years at 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
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financial senses, the image of the swashbuckling, super-rich banker engaged in transactions too complex 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
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colocated firms is a critical “must” for the exchanges, but not so when it comes to institutional and retail investors. Private Data Feeds In the 1987 movie Wall Street, insider trader Gordon Gekko tells aspiring broker Bud Fox that “the most valuable commodity I know of is information.”16 This is still true today
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.pdf. 15. Ivy Schmerken, “Exchanges Say Colocation Is a Regulated Business” (Dec. 20, 2011), Wall Street and Technology website, http://wallstreetandtech.com/exchanges/232300847. 16. Oliver Stone, Wall Street (1987), IMDb website, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/quotes. 17. Securities and Exchange Commission, “Self-Regulatory Organizations; EDGA Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and
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importance of money was surging as income inequality (the gap between the rich and poor) grew during the decade. As Gordon Gekko opined in the 1987 movie Wall Street, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” Gecko’s soliloquy was based on a real-life commencement address given by stock trader Ivan
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’d learned plenty about how the investment banking world really worked. While in training at DLJ, my class of newly minted MBAs had watched the 1987 movie Wall Street. The corporate raider Gordon Gecko, played by a sleek Michael Douglas, was our role model. We adopted his mantra: “Greed is good.” We believed it
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.22% FED BANKS TOTAL ASSETS: $807.26B DATE: 1/1/2005 Lunch? Aw, you gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps. —GORDON GECKO, IN THE 1987 MOVIE WALL STREET The short, slender man with dark hair and serious eyes seemed skeptical, even wary, of the columnist sitting across his desk. I wasn’t quite
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sense”: Danielle DiMartino, “Fed Hike Seen As Certainty,” Dallas Morning News, October 31, 2005. CHAPTER 4: INSIDE THE BLACK BOX Lunch is for wimps: Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone (1987; Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox). “The ramifications extend far beyond”: Danielle DiMartino, “For Many, Homes Becoming a Liability,” Dallas Morning News, September 14
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sales of valuable assets, regardless of the impact on the long-term viability of the company), immortalized by Gordon ‘Greed-is-good’ Gekko in the 1987 movie Wall Street. To avoid such a fate, firms had to deliver profits faster than before. Otherwise impatient shareholders would sell up, reducing the share prices and thus
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they are simply taking their just deserts, or even that being greedy is not beyond the pale. As the unscrupulous investor Gordon Gekko in the 1987 movie Wall Street put it, “Greed is right, greed works.” Interestingly, Keltner and his collaborators also saw that other non-rich people can be nudged to behave more
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