Wall Street I and Wall Street II show the excessive Wall Street stock market greed that led to brokerage firms developing sub-prime mortgages sold to foreign governments, investors and even retirement funds world wide. The banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies backed the sub-prime mortgages.
As the real estate market bubble burst and the sub-prime mortgages became worthless, banks and brokerage houses went belly up and the world’s largest insurance company came close to collapse. To save the financial institutions, governments bailed out the banks, mortgage brokers and insurance companies. Then the governments came perilously close to financial collapse and China was asked to lend money through the purchase of government bonds.
The seed of the global financial crises was foretold in Wall Street I and the actual collapse is told in Wall Street II.
The bottom line is that the stock market is not an investment, it is a gamble. The potential profits are directly related to the amount of risk. And too many big players control and manipulate stock prices making the purchase of stock very risky for a small investor.
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From this movie, I realize excessive greedy is not a good thing. Although we need desire for success, we should choose an appropriate way which dose not damage benefits of other people.
Maybe greed is good,but too greed is bad.Just like the word “aggressive”.
Inside information is useful, but sometimes we can not use it.
EDITOR’S NOTE: YOU CAN NEVER USE IT.
In some degree,I agree with the credo that “greed is good.” Just because of greed,we constantly pursue progress and success.But what we also need to known is that greed is boundless.If we exceed the boundary,we might do something extreme.
In order to get up to the top, Bud Fox took full advantage of the resources around him. He stole the information from his father and his lawyer friend. In our lives, there are some people who always take order to cheat. We should be careful when they ask us to do some strange or illegal things. Working hard to get the money you deserve it.
Gordon was a greedy businessman who only wanted to make more money.He thought greed is good,and he didn’t care how to make money,insider trading included.In my opinion,all of us should make money legally with our energy.Money is good,but money isn’t everything.
Greed is good, but it is more important that gaining money by licit means. I think that we must keep our head and sense when we face benefits temptation.
In my opinion,greed is good,it is the power of people to achieve success.There is a saying,the soldiers,who don’t want to be a general ,isn’t a good soldierdon.
In the Wall Street,greed and desire and is ever-present.In fact,they are pervades in our daily life,someone who has the ambition to get to the top is nothing wrong,but there is no shortcut.
In order to success,you must to have greed.Only have the desire,will we struggle.But everything has to be regular.Reasonable desire is acceptable!
Maybe greed is good,but too greed is bad,so we should learn how to control our emotions.
Everything is a double-edged sword,so is stock investment. It can promote the development of a new company by providing huge circulating fund. It can also be utilized by some broker just like the scene in the movie. I think the reason is people’s excessive desire for money. Is happiness positive correlation with the amount of money? Only apply the things aroud us properly,can we get more benefit and happiness.
When a man only can see money in his eyes, he will forget anything else, for example, good conscience and love.
What Gordon seeked for,in my opinion,is not only money,but also the feeling of geting anything he wangted.His greed went too far.
Yet,At first i don’t like this kind of movie,but have watched this movie i learnt something about store market.
It is greedy that make one successful.Meanwhile,we must learn to be contented,if someone is too greedy,he may lost himself.
From this film we see the greed of human,we need to use a proper way to make money.
Money is good, greed is good ,but excessive money and greed is not good.
It became a declaration that the moral bankruptcy infiltrating our society, and Gekko’s words were an ode to reveal this.
Every coin has two sides,so does greedy.Proper greedy is good while excessive greedy is harmful.
After seeing this film,I am really impressed by the film,it reflects human lust, and tells us to cherish our human life,I think except money,we have many others thing to treasure,like love and life.
The stock market is not suitable for everbody,you should be cautious before buying stocks.
with a heavy heart,I have finished watching over the movie.because the film reminds me of today’s world financial crisis which makes our economy fall into a great depression.
Greedy is some of comtradiction. Someone is drived by it to pursue a better life, just like Bud’goal at first in the moive. But with the increasing wealth one holds, his ambition blooms, his greed of owning more makes him trying anything to get more, regardless of others’ interest, just like Gerdon does.
From this movie,I see a society that there is many things that unfair to us.there are a few people make a lot of money just controlled the stock market,even though they offence the law,but they were lived well.
I quite agree with heroine could even stay original in the Wall Street, give up his rapid accumulation of wealth and the accompanying gain greater opportunity, insist to do his razor-nailed mercenary, uphold justice fair. Although Patty finally accept the police charged, and is about to be in jail, but we have no two saw a conscience future entrepreneurs, ha ha very beautiful American dream! Overall, the movie or esteem, through their own efforts to gain wealth rather than through illegal means, is rapidly PRD novice ethical personal integrity employed a lesson well. A hopeful society more responsible in a moral bottom line too outstanding entrepreneur.
Money never sleep. But money is not the meaning of the life. Maybe we should consider the importantance of wealth. What’s the most important thing in our life? Time will give me a stasified answer.
Greed is good,but you must have the morality.If not,you will be eat by the greed.Whatever you have owned will gone,you pay a big price.
Investing and gambling are different,investing must be based on much knowledge and information.if you don’t have much knowledge
and experience please be far away from the stock market and other investment market.
The film tells the story of a young stockbroker desperate to become involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko, an unscrupulous corporate raider. Gekko declares that “greed, for lack of a better word, is good”. Finally, he must face his crimes.
I have to say it is a really great film to talk about what is greedy.And this film also tell us why the world’s Economic crisis is caused.Everyone should watch the films(wall street I and II).We can learn so much in them.
From this film,we could see ruthless and greedy only could destroy a person at last.Conscience is essential to every person.
I can learn too much from the movie,the excessive greed is harmful.
To invest the stock market must be careful.
It tells us the truth of greed. We can not simply tell it’s bad or good,but we are sure that excessive greed is bad.What we really should cherish is our friends,our family,money is not everything.
One of my focuses on this movie is of Darien. My attitudes towards the girl is mixed. On one hand, I don’t like such kind of girl who lives like a parasite, without any practical living capacities. She is just similar to an expensive prostitute. On the other hand, I feel sympathy for her, since it is difficult for a girl like her in the business world to stand on her own feet. Even though we admit that the world has become more and more equal to both of the genders, but without men, women can hardly achieve any things, while for men, the condition is much much better.