Gordon Gekko ~ Quote of the Week

Continuing the weekly compilation of quotes here at Market Folly, we give you a classic from the movie Wall Street. While everyone always quotes Gordon Gekko's notable line, "Greed is good", we wanted to highlight an equally compelling tidbit. Given the fact that the movie's sequel, Wall Street 2, is coming out in a few months, we found this quotation to be quite timely:

"The most valuable commodity I know if is information. Wouldn't you agree?"

~ Gordon Gekko

And for those of you wanting to hear it directly from the man himself, here's an embedded audio clip you can press play to hear:

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For more on the infamous Gordon Gekko, be sure to watch the DVD of the classic movie, Wall Street (and on Blu-ray here) to brush up before the new movie. For more on the upcoming sequel, head to the Wall Street 2 trailer.

Wall Street 2 the Movie

Greed is good.

I know there will be a few people excited about this news: The sequel to the movie Wall Street is now green to go. Fox recently was out saying that Oliver Stone is on board to direct, Michael Douglas will be back as Gordon Gekko, and they are negotiating with Shia LeBeouf for a new 'Bud Fox' style of character, this time as a Wall Street trader. The focus of the film will stay on Gekko's character, but any details beyond that are scarce.

This sequel has been on again and off again, but now it looks to be given the green light for sure and Fox hopes to starting shooting sometime in the summer. Originally, the film was being tossed around with the title "Money Never Sleeps," but now will apparently just be titled "Wall Street 2."

For those of you who have never seen the original, it's a classic and you need to definitely watch it in all it's 80's glory. You can pick up Wall Street on DVD here (20th Anniversary edition) and on Bluray here. This is an essential flick for anyone involved in markets and graced our list of gifts for those in finance.

Source: LA Times

Wall Street Warriors

If you want some weekend entertainment that is market related, then you can check out the tv series, Wall Street Warriors. The series follows various people involved with the markets and so far there have been two seasons, with a third one supposedly in the works. You can watch episodes from the first 2 seasons online for free here.

Wall Street Bull Has Blue Balls

Gothamist had a reader send in some pics of someone who spray painted the balls blue on the Wall Street Bull. They said its gone now but they managed to snap a few picks before it was cleaned up. I figured it would be good to add some humor in here considering how brutal everything's been lately.

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