{"id":541,"date":"2003-12-18T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2017-05-28T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:49:24","slug":"541","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/18\/541\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed, For Lack of a Better Word, Is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after reading <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/17\/7408\/\" target=\"_new\"><em> 50 Best (and Worst) Business Deals<\/em><\/a>, I had to go and watch <i><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0094291\/\" target=\"new\">Wall Street<\/a><\/i> to get a nut&#8217;s-eye view of the 1980s and the corporate raiders and LBO artists.<\/p>\n<p>Man, what a cool movie.  I rather liked Gordon Gekko, who rose from humble beginnings as a city college kid to become what he was.   I mean, read his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/MovieSpeeches\/moviespeechwallstreet.html\" target=\"new\">speech to Teldar stockholders<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a pretty rousing bit.<\/p>\n<p>But almost to the end of the movie, in the confrontation between Gordon Gekko and Bid Fox over Bluestar Air, suddenly Michael Douglas opens his mouth and Oliver Stone&#8217;s economic theories come out.  He calls capitalism a zero-sum game and vomits forth a Paul Krugman column.<\/p>\n<p>Stone&#8217;s projecting.  Everything he captures right about capitalism in the movie he negates with this single speech, where capitalists are fleas and Martin Sheen&#8217;s working man is the noble dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after reading 50 Best (and Worst) Business Deals, I had to go and watch Wall Street to get a nut&#8217;s-eye view of the 1980s and the corporate raiders and LBO artists. Man, what a cool movie. I rather liked Gordon Gekko, who rose from humble beginnings as a city college kid to become what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16600,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/16600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}