Word: greed
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...Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System...
Allan Sloan concludes that because some CEOs didn't cash in their stocks, they didn't understand what they were doing. A more plausible explanation: unfettered greed blinded them. Sloan also omits the question of where the "well run" Goldman Sachs would be if it had not received a whopping $12.9 billion in bailout funds...
SLAM’s slogan last year was “Greed is the New Crimson”—a motto that did not sit well with some Harvard administrators...
Quotes By: "Greed, sometimes, is not good." - Announcing the arrest of billionaire Galleon hedge-fund founder Raja Rajaratnam and five others for insider trading (Reuters...
...1980s were a monument to Wall Street excess, witnessing some of the most notorious insider-trading prosecutions in history. Corporate raider Ivan Boesky - said to be an inspiration for the fictional Gordon ("Greed ... is good") Gekko, villain of the Oliver Stone film Wall Street - was sentenced to 3½ years in prison and fined $100 million in 1986 for insider trading. Financier Michael Milken, the "junk-bond king" who famously earned $550 million in 1987, avoided prosecution on similar charges by pleading guilty to other criminal counts. But the largest insider-trading conviction came two decades later, in 2007, when...