Back in 1987, a movie called “Wall Street” featured a character named Gordon Gekko, who preached a gospel called “Greed is Good.” He sacrificed everything to make money – yes, he was ...

Boesky would go to prison in a scandal so brazen that he became the inspiration for the character of Gordon Gekko in the seminal film “Wall Street.” Boesky’s 1986 guilty plea to insider ...

The Fifth Ave home of the late philanthropist Carroll Petrie has been sold to Wall Street billionaire James Tomilson Hill, vice chairman of the Blackstone Group hedge fund the Real Deal reports ...

Greed is like cancer that, when left untreated, can destroy individuals, families, businesses, governments and economies. Greed makes financially ignorant people putty in the hands of the consumer ...

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Released in 1987, it stars Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, a young stockbroker hoping to work with his idol, Gordon Gekko, a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider played by Michael Douglas. Gekko’s ...

Admiring the power of unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko, Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading. As Fox becomes embroiled in greed and underhanded schemes ...

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the ...

The Wall Street mogul inspired the character of Gordon Gekko and came to epitomize the excesses of the go-go 1980s. (JTA) — Ivan Boesky, a financier whose role in an illegal insider trading ...