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...Over the past 20 years of excess, millions of American families have lived prudently and within their means, even as incomes stagnated and good job opportunities vanished. Most of us know what is good for America; we used to live there before the Washington - Wall Street axis of greed wrecked it for so many of us. By declaring that "there is plenty of blame to go around," TIME has now joined Washington in excusing the government's negligence and creating the crisis. Ray Damani, Spartanburg...
...things that writer Bret Easton Ellis is comfortable with are not the things that most people are comfortable with: hard drugs, greed, outré sexuality, pop music, homicide, the name “Christie”—the 1980s. His novels have returned to these subjects again and again, beginning in “Less Than Zero,” continuing through his seminal work, “American Psycho,” and into a follow-up collection of short stories, “The Informers”—lately made into a somewhat uncomfortable...
...switch was on for all sorts of indiscretions,” Rose said. “I’ve never been that close to unabashed, raw greed in my life, up to and since then...
...They were really tax-adverse, and they did anything possible to reduce taxes,” Rose said, pointing to the individual greed of HMC’s executives. “I had to deal with the money managers’ mindset [that] if Harvard somehow has to pay a tax, that would reduce their take-home pay as well...
...think Bernie Madoff did what he did? Was it about money, or something more? I think it was greed, pure and simple. To do what he did on such a large scale and to so-called friends is reprehensible. He had to know what he was doing. I don't think he deserves any excuses for being a sleazebag. (See photos from the downfall of Bernie Madoff...