Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good" Full Speech *read the description*

Gordon Gekko *unknowningly* describes the problems facing today's private sector, while blasting the bureaucracy responsible for said problems in the first place. A classic speech, both in film and, also, within economic thought.

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[tnickknight]

You do know Gekko was a shark, looking for the short term goals. He is Romney.

[TheManiacalSatanist6]

@tnickknight "Quick-buck artists come and go with every bull market, but only the steady investor makes it through the bear markets." ~ Someone from the Wall-Street movie.

And whether or not Gordon Gekko was a shark or not doesn't change the fact that he's right.

[tnickknight]

@TheManiacalSatanist6 You might want to keep watching the movie. It was all about quick profits. He could care less about the people (whom he wanted to make unemployed), even when they made money.

[TheManiacalSatanist6]

@tnickknight "You might want to keep watching the movie. It was all about quick profits. He could care less about the people (whom he wanted to make unemployed), even when they made money."

Again, that's irrelevant to the point he's making here.

[Shargaad]

except that..., as also Nobel prizes declare, states do not work the same way as companies and corporates do. They have different goals, different ways of working and face VERY different challenges. May I point out that the only 2 businessmen who became US presidents are Grant and Hoover? Both ran the country straight into a recession.

[TheManiacalSatanist6]

@Shargaad The Country has been going in and out of recession after recession since 1913, so that doesn't prove anything. The issue is how these people dealt with the recession, and contrary to popular believe, Hoover did NOT leave the 1929 crash up to the free-market to solve.

[JeremyMogul]

bluehorseshoe loves anicotsteel

[ComputerIlliterit]

This speech is SO TRUE! Since the 1900's, increasing exponentially since the Great Depression. Great movie, great acting by Douglas, the Sheen father/son duo (love their scenes together) Securities fraud have gone up 52% since 2008. A BIG BANK violating this act has NEVER been INDICTED for violation of the 1970 Secrecy Bank Act: that little law that's supposed to stop money laundering; the banks get "deferred-prosecution" basically it's a FINE and a promise for that bank to not do it again.

[BoxOfOranges84]

It's like George Romney, with Charlie Sheen playing Mitt

[kcrone1]

Gekko 4 PRES!!!!

[tnickknight]

@TheManiacalSatanist6 If this where a real life. Gekko, would have been given bailouts, well Republicans blamed it all on the workers at Blue Star.

[tnickknight]

@Jantv81 No, your wrong. This speech, this is right out of the hard right wing side.

[StudioVanguardLTD]

Dump it...