Here’s the trailer for the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Does Gordon Gekko still think that greed is good? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Synopsis – 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 [...]
A little Wall Street bailout humor from John Stewart and The Daily Show.
Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform to Washington, many now say that the recession is nearing an end. But is it business as usual for Wall Street, and have future financial crises been averted? That’s the million trillion dollar question posed by Bill Moyers on his recent interview of Marcy [...]
The bets were huge and risky—billions of dollars on the housing market. The upside was undeniable—superbanks reaped billions of dollars, dominated the landscape, and gobbled up competitors. Then the bottom dropped out—the massive losses on Wall Street nearly broke the banks. In the worst crisis in decades, brand name banks are on the brink. Now [...]
On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. “There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left,” says [...]
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Wall Street Brain Drain
The one thing that I learned rather quickly when I first started working as an employee, is the fact that everyone is replaceable. No matter how highly you value yourself, the company will always consider you expendable. It’s nothing personal. Like they say, “it’s just business”.
Even in a market where there’s a shortage of pharmacists, [...]