How low can the barons of high finance go?

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How low can the barons of high finance go?
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“Greed is good,” proclaimed Gordon Gekko, lead character in a 1987 film lampooning the low ethics of the high finance barons of Wall Street.

You might think that, surely, this Hollywood portrayal is a gross exaggeration, but check out an egregious example of Gekko-level greed being pushed by today’s Wall Street sharks.

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