Rogers weve had 29yearolds making 1 million a year, expecting to make 2 million the year after that. Diana ferry but if youve got plastic money, theres Nothing Holding you back. History will prove the bakkers were honest people. Reporter Insider Trading could become wall streets watergate. Pauley what do we call greed the day before an indictment . Im afraid recently, weve called it success. Robinson the u. S. Economy, which used to be the envy of the world, is in the most serious trouble since the Great Depression. Inflation is rising while our standard of living is declining. Thomas there was tremendous inflation and not much growth. The country was not in a Great Depression in 1980, but the United States was in the dumps. Dobyns on wall street, it was cold, gray, wet, and miserable. There was no comfort to be found outside. And for investors, there was not much inside, either. The tickers carried almost nothing but bad news. Mclean wed come off a terrible decade for investing. Peopl
of what s wrong with wall street. the news of the boesky indictment was like the bombshell of the decade on wall street. what do we call greed the day before an indictment is filed, if you get my meaning? i m afraid recently, we ve called it success that some of the people who have now turned out to have been engaged in criminal activity, such as ivan boesky, were being hailed as heroes while they were at the peak of their careers. green: millions of america s small investors have been appalled at the boesky affair. i think they should get every one of them, put them in jail. jensen: since 1984, there had been more than 48 cases of insider trading brought by new york s u.s. attorney rudolph giuliani. back then, rudy had the aura, essentially, of being the best man in law enforcement without a cape. maybe we can t catch all of them, but we sure as heck can deliver a message, which is if you do get caught, you are gonna lose your liberty. you re gonna go to prison. today, as the prospe