guardian.co.uk - 10/14/2008
—
Xan Brooks:Gordon Gekko was a poster-boy of 1980s Reaganomics, but what role should he play in the credit crunch era?
gothamist.com - 10/9/2008
—
gothamist.com —
It has not been a good time on
Wall Street , and now it's gotten even lower....
Reader Adalis writes, " Someone spray painted the Wall St. Bulls balls blue. It was gone in a few hours, but I snapped some quick pics."
(more)
Wall Street Really Needs Relief
econompicdata.blogspot.com - 10/9/2008
—
econompicdata.blogspot.com —
The Federal Reserve just released Consumer Credit data
for August and it isn't pretty. For the first...
time since early 1998, seasonally adjusted month over month consumer credit outstanding turned negative AND this was BEFORE markets completely froze ...
(more)
From Wall Street to Main Street... Credit Frozen
Comments
Blog Reactions
Wall Street in the News — and Still Set for Theatres, Too
DealBook —
... formidable presence he held as a highflying arbitrageur. The Guardian’s Film Blog writes: Undeniably there are still enough villainous roles for Gekko to fill –maybe even more than there were 20 years ago. Will he be made-over as a guru of the sub-prime lending market, or a shadowy lobbyist pushing for wholesale financial deregulation? Or will he even return to corporate raiding, with the job now reconfigured as that of a heroic clean-up operation? Go to Article from Variety » Go to Item from The Guardian’s Film Blog » Go to Previous Item from DealBook » ...
In defence of hedge funds
FT Alphaville —
... If institutional investors are going to buy, they’ll do so presumably on the basis that long-term, the shares in banks are hugely undervalued; not simply on the expectation of a piddly dividend from a penny stock over the next three fallow years. Enter then, the hedge funds. You can’t blame your bedfellows, so it makes sense to go after the Monsters of Mayfair or the Gordon Gekkos of Greenwich. They make easier villains anyway. The sequel to Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps - is coming out soon . Here’s betting Gekko will be a hedgie.
Related Content
How ‘Wall Street’ Sequel Tripped on Reality
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 10/28/2008 — Stephen Schiff isn’t a trader or a banker, but he knows first-hand about the convulsions on Wall Street. He is the screenwriter who wrote was was supposed to be Gordon Gekko’s long-awaited comeback vehicle — only to have the ...
"Wall Street" Sequel: Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone On Board
huffingtonpost.com 4/29/2009 — LOS ANGELES Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone are back together again with a sequel to their 1987 hit "Wall Street." Douglas is reprising his role as Gordon Gekko and Stone is on board again to direct the sequel, which for now has the working title ...
Why Bailout Wall Street?
canadiancapitalist.com 10/4/2008 — There is a lot of public anger on the $700 billion dollar bailout that is being proposed by the Bush Administration. The typical reaction is why bail out well-paid fat cats on Wall Street, who are responsible for the current mess anyway. While it is ...
Main Street > Wall Street
macro-man.blogspot.com 9/29/2008 — Clearly there are more voters on Main Street than Wall Street, and we all know that the first job of a Congressman in October is to make sure that he is a Congressman in January. Regardless of whether "the package" was a good idea or not, it doesn't ...
It’s as Bad on Main Street as Wall Street
jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com 10/3/2008 — A long-standing observation of ours is this: the further you get away from Wall Street, the more optimistic you get. On Wall Street, stocks go up and down—sometimes violently—every hour, minute and second of the trading day. Wall Street’s Finest ...
Fox revives 'Wall Street' sequel: Oliver Stone back on board
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/29/2009 — It looked like 20th Century Fox's "Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to Oliver Stone's riveting 1987 drama "Wall Street," was dead in the water, especially after the director told MTV News earlier this year that he'd abandoned the project, saying...
Wall Street News & Articles on washingtonpost.com
washingtonpost.com 9/15/2008 — Wall Street Articles After America's fury, Wall Street has changed forever (Independent, Ireland) 10/1/2008 12:03:35 AM Taipei shares open higher on Wall St bounce, local ban on short-selling (Forbes) 9/30/2008 11:53:00 PM Slow Rise for a New Era ...
Wall Street Meltdown - Redux (video)
youtube.com 2/26/2009 — This is a sequel to a video parody I made in December 2007 entitled Wall Street Meltdown (also on YouTube) that chronicled the developing financial crisis of...
Follow WallStreetBlips on Twitter
