Gordon Gekko
We Spoke to an Old-School Corporate Raider About Elon Musk and Twitter
One of the inspirations for Gordon Gekko grades the Tesla CEO's battle to own his favorite social media platform.
‘Wall Street’ Is the Perfect Statement About Trump’s America
Thirty years later, Oliver Stone's douchebag monument is pretty spot-on about the mess we’re in.
The Smartphone Game Where In-App Purchases Are Real-World Stocks and Shares
"We think the stock market is the biggest and best game in the world."
Are White-Collar Crime Registries the Key to Preventing Another Financial Crisis?
On Wednesday, the Utah State Legislature created a sex-offender-style registry for warning the public about Utah's Gordon Gekkos. The idea might just catch on.
The Peony Pavilion
For a long time, my wife and her friends referred to me as the Peacock. An inferior man who tries to seduce a woman by speaking about his hardships: "to fan out." As in, to open his feathers. Show off his tail.
When Wall Street Came to London
A look back at how British banking institutions were taken over by their Wall Street counterparts and the hardworking, hard-gambling culture of global finance as we know it took shape.