Gordon Gekko tells FBI 'Greed is not good' Michael Douglas stars in a federal public service announcement unveiled for television. The commercial denounces corporate greed after opening with a flashback to a famous scene from his Oscar winning-role in the 1987 Oliver Stone film. In it, his character Gordon Gekko reminds television audiences that "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." The announcement then cuts to Douglas, who says: "The movie was fiction, but the problem is real." Douglas says Gekko, a greedy corporate executive, cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings and urges the Wall Street financial community to fight insider trading. "Our economy is increasingly dependent on the sucess and integrity of the financial markets, is a deal looks too good to be true it probably is," he says. The commercial is part of an ongoing offensive by federal authorities in New York against insider trading. The crackdown has resulted in multiple convictions. The short commercial is featured on the FBI's website and YouTube.