For the most part, greed is considered by most religions and schools of thought to be a bad thing. In fact, greed is one of the seven deadly sins. Some economists and evolutionary theorists, however, ...

Barbara Kruger Untitled (Can money buy you love?), 2011 Archival pigment print. 32 by 50 inches. Courtesy 0f the artist and Sprüth Magers Gordon Gekko, the amoral investor in Oliver Stone’s Wall ...

Explore how greed played a role in the 2020 economic crisis and learn financial lessons to avoid future pitfalls.

Ivan Boesky, the financier who gave birth to the “greed is good” mantra before going to prison in one of the biggest Wall Street insider trading scandals of the 1980s, has died in La Jolla at the age ...

Usually, our first concern is for the welfare of our citizens. However, if that doesn’t come before greed, you can usually be secure in the fact that greed will win out. If that’s not important, are ...

For Kaitlin Takacs-Haynes, professor of management in the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, studying greed has been on her mind since having a conversation with ...

Few films have captured the ruthless world of money, ambition, and corporate power as sharply as Wall Street. Released in 1987, the Oliver Stone-directed drama became more than just a successful ...

When Gordon Gekko, the main antagonist in the 1987 film “Wall Street,” declared in no uncertain terms that “Greed is good!” people flocked to the theaters. And cheered. Please don’t base your belief ...