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Apocryphal target of a hostile takeover by apocryphal corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie Wall Street.

It was during an extraordinary extraordinary general meeting at Teldar Paper shareholders that Gekko sought to persuade investors that “…greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

This launched a thousand aspiring political careers from well-meaning teenaged lefties who are now executives at bulge bracket investment banks.