{"id":311,"date":"2024-05-21T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/ivan-boesky-inspiration-for-wall-street-villain-gordon-gekko-dead-at-87\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:31:08","slug":"ivan-boesky-inspiration-for-wall-street-villain-gordon-gekko-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/ivan-boesky-inspiration-for-wall-street-villain-gordon-gekko-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Boesky, inspiration for \u2018Wall Street\u2019 villain Gordon Gekko, dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan-turned-convict who served as the partial inspiration for the 1987 Oliver Stone film \u2018Wall Street,\u2019 has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Though he denied ever saying it, contemporary accounts reported Boesky extolling the virtues of avarice in a commencement speech at the University of California Berkeley in 1986.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI think greed is healthy,\u2019 Boesky reportedly said. \u201cYou can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At that point, he was seen as a money-making visionary for his seeming ability to predict business mergers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By the end of that year, Boesky had been charged with insider trading, having made lucrative stock bets based on illicit access to proprietary information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As it turned out, Boesky was sending literal briefcases full of cash to an insider at a well-known Wall Street firm in exchange for tips about acquisition activity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Boesky, a onetime Wall Street titan-turned-convict who served as the partial inspiration for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}