Trish was not a stupid girl, but out of greed, pride, and materialism she cheapened herself.

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Many Jews were betrayed by neighbours out of fear or greed.

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Now that we have been apprised of this piercing insight, are we supposed to seek out and rectify all instances of greed?

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Goldmanites feel their firm has been unfairly singled out as a symbol of greed.

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These insectlike figures play out a petty drama of greed, jealousy, and depraved indifference to human life, while voice-over narrations try strenuously, and unsuccessfully, to persuade us that something weighty and tragic is going on.

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And sure enough, the greed got seriously out of hand and then imploded, in fact twice, once with the bursting of the stock market bubble of 2000, and then even more seriously with the real estate and sub-prime mortgage bubble and resulting financial meltdown of 2008-2009.

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He is also correct in pointing out that this has to do more with greed than the welfare of the country.

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He agreed that a culture of greed and irresponsible attitude to customers may have "got out of control" in the financial sector.

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That the gold turned out to be illusory made the saga seem even more of a parable about the consequences of unbridled greed.

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