It’s got to be one of the dozen most famous, iconic,carved-into-Hollywood-history catch phrases the movies have ever givenus, a line to quote right along with Read the full post.
Mar 28
2009
06:12 PM ET
'Wall Street': What it still has to tell us
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Good insight, but if it were merely a matter of creating fiscal illusions in the stock market, we’d have a relatively minor problem. It’s far more insidious. We used to rationalize that we were moving away from manufacturing to a “service economy,” but we mostly have a fluff service sector that provides nonessential services to people in nonessential jobs. Daddy is a corporate lawyer. Mommy is in advertising. They eat out, hire nannies, and thereby pump a ton of money into the economy and not a penny of it is actually productive. Then we have the middle-class freeloaders who think they have a Constitutional right to buy a house, have it increase in value, and not lift a finger to do any work for it. And let’s not forget the RIAA and MPAA, who do nothing creative themselves but blather pompously about “intellectual property rights.”
Fix the spacing errors in the article please. Otherwise an interesting read.