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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps disappoints at every turn

September 23, 2010 Features
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Written by: Jim Ferguson Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has a surprisingly upbeat and promising opening, showing the aged Gordon Gekko quietly walking back onto the streets a free man. But from here on out, it is all a bloated downward spiral of bland protagonists and product placement so dreadfully obvious it gave me a [...]

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Wall Street sequel can’t match magic of original classic

September 23, 2010 Features
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Written by: David Entin It’s hard to love Gordon Gekko – a still-fantastic Michael Douglas – and harder to forget him after his luminous performance in Wall Street. Yet, after sitting through an overzealous two-plus-hour sequel, it is even harder to care. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is coated in a promising sheen, but readily [...]

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The Word on Wall Street

April 22, 2010 Marketplace

Written by: Ryan Vanzo On April 16, the Securities Exchange Committee (SEC) charged Goldman Sachs with fraud in the structuring and marketing of Mortgage-Backed Securities. The SEC claims that Goldman acted against their clients’ best interests by recommending mortgage securities to them even though the firm was betting on them falling in value. The SEC [...]

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