“Greed is good.” The director's unmatched portrayal of the 1980s' man-on-the-make in Wall Street's Gordon Gekko is the stuff of legends. To political poindexters, Gekko’s sermon at the ...
Boesky, the disgraced 1980s financier who inspired the cutthroat corporate raider Gordon ... of Gekko made “Greed Is Good” a mantra of the Reagan Era, Boesky had already become a Wall Street ...