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Gordon Gekko

Greed is Good

About Me

I've traded my way to fortune by pioneering risk arbitrage and remain one of Wall Street's most feared traders. I increased my fortune when I married my lovely wife, Kate. Katie happens to be the daughter of hotelier Frederick Wisher. Now I'm moving New York real estate, buying and selling with the same zeal I used during my many mergers and acquisitions.
Keep in mind people, the richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work; two thirds comes from inheritance (interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons) plus the work I do -- stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. you got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own...
You may ask how much is enough. Well, it's not a question of enough. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another... The point is... that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed WORKS!! Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for money, for knowledge, for sex - has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed - you mark my words - will not only save the faltering American business economy; it will save that other malfunctioning corporation we call the USA. Thank You.

My Interests

Yachting, golf, real estate, the market, sex…

I'd like to meet:

your wife

Music:

Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Handel, Chopin

Movies:

Glengarry, Glenn Ross ; Boiler Room ; Rounders ; The Color of Money ; Risky Business ; Trading Places

Television:

The Apprentice, Survivor, and anything on CNN, Fox News, and CNBC

Books:

The Art of War, and the Wall Street Journal

Heroes:

heroes are overrated

My Blog

I'm ready to make my next big screen appearance

Hedge funds, low interest rates, & the global market have been very very good to me.new movie...
Posted by Gordon Gekko on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:10:00 PST

consumer confidence is mixed

Crude is still high.  Interest rates are rising.  Inflation is rising.  The housing market is depreciating in certain areas of the country.  The market is very volatile.  Inte...
Posted by Gordon Gekko on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:48:00 PST

3/25/06

I haven't blogged in some time.  Things have been keeping me busy.  Investement tip for you: The market likes stability.  This is why when the Congress and the House of Representatives ...
Posted by Gordon Gekko on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:33:00 PST

Hot stock tip 1/4/05

ATI (Allegheny Technologies Inc.) is named by 2 different sources to be the hot stock buy for the year '06.  Titanium is in high demand due to Boeing's long production list of new Titanium plated...
Posted by Gordon Gekko on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:20:00 PST