Can greed cure cancer? That is MIT Finance Department Chair and world influencer Dr. Andrew Lo’s latest hypothesis.  In a forthcoming paper, Lo will argue that the structure of collateralized debt obligations — yes, the same securities...

There’s a famous scene in the 1987 movie Wall Street in which the corporate raider Gordon Gekko gets up at a shareholder meeting and defends his impending takeover of the company. (Click the source link above to...

Disinfo Stephen Diamond writes in Psychology Todayback in 2009: Greed, like lust and gluttony, is traditionally considered a sin of excess. But greed tends to be applied to the acquisition of material wealth in particular. St. Thomas...