AUGUSTA, Ga. — “Greed,” financier Gordon Gekko famously declared in the 1987 film Wall Street, “is good. Greed is right, greed works.” Cleary Gekko never played Augusta National on Masters Sunday, ...
Greed, fearlessness, and bad government spurred the stock bubble that led to the most recent economic dire straits facing the U.S., National Economic Council Chairman Lawrence Summers asserted Friday.