In the 1987 Oliver Stone classic Wall Street, Michael Douglas’ role as the brazen corporate raider, Gordon Gekko, not only won the actor an Oscar for his performance but iconized his character as the ...

Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street, and Gordon Gekko, really captured the go-go zeitgeist of 1980's materialism and greed. Even today, it feels like many still operate with Gekko's quote in mind: "It's ...

“While zero-sum thinking may be the result of structural systems outside of the control of the individual, we showed that the ...

To paraphrase (again) the British politician and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay: People always think that life has been improving — up until their own time, that is. Somehow they don’t expect ...

I didn’t put a stake in the ground when my cofounders and I started DMi Partners and proclaim that our company was not going to be built on a zero-sum culture. At some point in the last few years, ...

In our interconnected world, the family dynamic is always evolving. For many, the notion of family expands beyond traditional boundaries to include egg and sperm donors and half-siblings. However, a ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a public swearing-in ceremony for Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, on the steps of City Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa) The two ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to ...

Some situations in life are zero-sum. On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams take the field but only one will emerge victorious, Vince Lombardi Trophy in hand. In a presidential election, only one candidate ...

LOOK at the news or social media these days, and you might see a pattern. Stories are about groups in conflict, competing for limited resources, with the gains for some framed as losses for others. If ...