the price of stocks. The information can manipulate the stock holders to buy or sell the stock to your convince. In the movie Gekko had Bud to tell all the other brokers to sell a stock to lower the price so he could buy it all. Throughout the movie, he says such things as “if something’s worth doing it’s worth doing for money” and “greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” He has everything he could possible want. A wife, family, estate, pool, limousine, priceless art objects but he seems unhappy. Money to him is nothing; it is merely a way of keeping score to him--it is all a game. At a board meeting for a certain company, he concludes a speech by saying, “The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.” Although at times during the movie Gekko’s success can be applauded, in the end, it is shown that his greed has many subsequent negative effects on those people that surround him. He is accused during the same board meeting of being a “destroyer of companies” and responds by proclaiming that he is a “liberator of companies!” However, his sole reason for buying into Bud’s father’s airline company is to make his money buy selling it all away. In effect making Buds father and all the other airline workers to lose their jobs. It is only when Gekko betrays Bud, by wrecking his father’s airline company, that Bud begins to realize that his actions are immoral and heeds the advice of his father, “Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.” Bud learns that he is practicing bad business ethics by working for Gekko. Bud realizes that he was running Gekkos portfolio in a way that fully incriminates himself and keeps distant the man whose finances he is c...
