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    China & The Sucking Sound of Greed

    “The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”  These are the infamous words uttered by Gordon Gekko, the crooked wall street tycoon played masterfully by Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie, Wall Street. Gekko’s theory was that greed is at the core of what makes our country great, from its founding until today. Of course, Gekko ends up going to jail and his empire dismantled by the Government, but was he right? How does the greed naturally present in a capitalist society affect our…