Word: greed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...property’s purchase has remained an open wound, which neighborhood activists point to as a renewed symbol of Harvard’s greed and a new reason to distrust their institutional neighbor...
America should hate Moby for all his hyphenate, cross-category greed, but he makes it awfully hard. His new album, 18, is like its creator: aggressively catholic. There are guitars, samples, surefire hits, instrumentals, dance grooves, happy songs, sad songs and angry songs. If you have a mood or desire, 18 has a song to match. And it's all pretty great...
...that even a tiny rate hike by the Bank of England could be read by the market as a sign of more to come, sending property prices down much too fast. "The U.K. housing market is driven by a lot of animal desires," says Loynes. "Fear of missing out. Greed." Sounds a lot like the stock market, actually. Except that you have to live there...
...good thing too, because let me tell you something, folks: peel back the inside information, the hands washing each other, the corruption and the greed, and Wall Street is still, at its heart, a high-stakes crapshoot. And nobody craves advice, good or bad, like gamblers. It gives them some sense of intelligence - and gives them someone to blame when they lose...
...Blodget is “retired” from Merrill, which realized that his continued presence at the firm was an invitation to class action lawsuits. Blodget’s case illustrates the power of greed to erode the barriers of self-interest that are supposed to police capitalism. When bankers and research analysts work at the same firm, the fee-generating bankers put enormous pressure on the research analysts to issue favorable ratings. They know companies that receive less than stellar ratings from an analyst will not take their banking business to that analyst’s firm...