Gordon Gekko public service announcement

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"Greed is NOT good". We learned that from the CDO & derivatives orgy of the aughts. Thank you Mr. Douglas for your public service:

FBI — Financial Fraud Public Service Announcement

Video: Gordon Gekko tells FBI 'Greed is not good' - Telegraph
"snip"
Michael Douglas stars in a federal public service announcement unveiled for television. The commercial denounces corporate greed after opening with a flashback to a famous scene from his Oscar winning-role in the 1987 Oliver Stone film.
In it, his character Gordon Gekko reminds television audiences that "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good". The announcement then cuts to Douglas, who says: "The movie was fiction, but the problem is real."
 
I'm quietly confident that most Americans are smart enough to work out that greed is not good all by themselves. They are unlikely to need some greedy rich fucking actor telling them what to think.

To quote Billy Crystal "So tonight, enjoy yourselves because nothing can take the sting of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues." Fucking greedy bastards telling others not to be greedy is vaguely funny.
 
"Greed is NOT good". We learned that from the CDO & derivatives orgy of the aughts. Thank you Mr. Douglas for your public service:

FBI — Financial Fraud Public Service Announcement

Video: Gordon Gekko tells FBI 'Greed is not good' - Telegraph
"snip"
Michael Douglas stars in a federal public service announcement unveiled for television. The commercial denounces corporate greed after opening with a flashback to a famous scene from his Oscar winning-role in the 1987 Oliver Stone film.
In it, his character Gordon Gekko reminds television audiences that "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good". The announcement then cuts to Douglas, who says: "The movie was fiction, but the problem is real."

So is Mr. Douglas going to cut a check to the Treasury for all the after tax money he made from starring in that movie??
 
judging from the previous posts, there is a high probability that they are fans of Fabrice Tourre. ;)
 

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