gordon gecko lives
Democracy for Vancouver (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... Greed is good! Just don’t get caught… Post [...] Post from: Democracy for Vancouver gordon gecko lives
Gordon Gecko
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Bankers say Jesus would have approved of fat paycheques
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.” Sounds a lot like Gordon Gecko and "greed is good," no? Kelly McParland National Post h/t NH
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RFK Jr.: Time to put coal industry out of business
Green Wombat (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Image: Solar Power International I had the chance to interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this week after he gave an impassioned speech at the Solar Power International conference in Anaheim, Calif. As I wrote in The New York Times: In a barn-burning speech Wednesday at the Solar Power International conference in Anaheim, Calif., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sounded a bit like a green Gordon Gecko....
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Seen Outside The Helmsley Building (Park & 45th)
The Reformed Broker (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Please let it be a Gordon Gecko scene and not a Shia scene. I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl. Read Also: Guess Who’s Back! (TRB) My Commentary on the Wall Street Sequel (TRB)
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Friday 23 October 2009
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... as the Depression gave way to World War II, the Cold War, and ultimately the greed of the Gordon Gecko years. But has it taken this new crash to bring America to its senses? In a special edition of Newsnight and Newsnight Review tonight live from New York, we explore the economic and cultural landscape that was created out of the Wall Street crash 80 years ago tomorrow, and ask if...
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Why I love Dubai
AngloAustria (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The longer I spend in Dubai the more cleansed I feel, because I am away from the snake-pit of socialist welfare-warfare rent-seeking politics that passes for life in modern Britain. I am away from 'The Tube', postal strikes, postal unions, the NHS, Gordon Gecko Brown, David Cameron, quantitative counterfeiting from the Bank of England, the BBC, the British police, environmentalist bums,...
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Did Stallman fisk himself?
Open Source (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... GPL competitor to Oracle . (Has it really been over 20 years since Michael Douglas’ star turn as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street? Apparently so.) That’s important because the enterprise-class database systems available under open source, like PostgreSQL, are only available under licenses other than the GPL. Licenses Stallman does not endorse. What’s clear from reading articles by the deal’s...
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The Daily Walk of Shame: Dan Snyder's Washington Redskins
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... tender age of 34. He canoodles with movie stars, he does big deals. He's a Wall-Street-gunslinger-Gordon-Gecko kind of slick.Like other business "gurus," Snyder operates the Redskins under the mistaken assumption that success is something that can be bought. As far as I can tell, the Snyder Doctrine is some bizarre concoction of liberal amounts of reactionary decision-making, a strong...
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C&L Book Chat Welcomes Jonathan Tasini to Discuss The Audacity of Greed
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
... their Chicago School of Economics/Friedmanesque/free market-worshipping grasp. We have gone from Gordon Gecko's "Greed is good" to the GOP's implicit mantra "Greed is patriotic" and that force to get the most for ourselves, the hell with everyone else has driven this country to the brink of a second great depression and all but killed our middle class . Jonathan...
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Exclusive: 'An Education' for Carey Mulligan on 'Wall Street 2'
CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
... Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps , in which she plays a supporting role as Gordon Gecko’s daughter, opposite the film’s star players, Michael Douglas and Shia LeBeouf. She spoke to us at some length about both projects. "I am amazed by the reviews," Mulligan says of An Education before qualifying her comment: "I am not amazed because...
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Sky News political debates
AngloAustria (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Sky News have recently been running a campaign to get Gordon "Gecko" Brown to dare to appear in a 'Leaders Debate'. Although they have finally managed to get the craven man to finally agree to this (after Mandy will have ordered him to do it), what was really interesting was the video they kept pumping out 24 hours a day, to force Mandy's well-manicured hand. Alas, I can't find...
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Beyond the meat suit
CANNONFIRE (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
... seeker to gain unlimited money, power, sex, weight-loss, enlightenment and sales. It's Gandalf as Gordon Gecko. I shall give away Byrnes' secret: She calls it "The Law of Attraction." Translation: Think Happy Thoughts Because Wishing Makes It So . You are awesome and godlike, and you can accomplish anything you want with a mere blink, just like Samantha on Bewitched . The...
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So called scientists and so called capitalists...
Micky's Muses (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
...are groups that are by no means immune to the lure of the big dollar. "Greed is good" said Gordon Gecko in the movie Wall Street, and of course he was right, although he should have said capitalism, rather than greed. And capitalism when left unfettered to compete, and untainted by government subsidy, delivers prosperity to billions of people. When big government dangles...
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Part VI - Greed
We need to unstiffen that lip (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
... seen the film Wall Street, a cinematic masterpiece and lives up to its hype. The central character Gordon Gecko (the bad guy) was played by Michael Douglas. It was as the film’s title suggests set in the financial district of New York – Wall Street. Gordon Gecko was a trader, with vast personal wealth and an even bigger thirst to obtain more. His catchphrase...