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Mortimer Boasberg's Contempt Trap

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In one of the final scenes in “Trading Places,” Mortimer Duke, played by Don Ameche, has a temper tantrum on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange after being bankrupted in a scheme concocted by Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) and Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Akroyd.)Duke demands the reopening of the exchange after the close of business to attempt to recoup the $390 million his firm lost that day. “We founded this exchange, it’s ours! It …
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Mortimer Boasberg's Contempt Trap

In one of the final scenes in “Trading Places,” Mortimer Duke, played by Don Ameche, has a temper tantrum on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange after being bankrupted in a scheme concocted by Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) and Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Akroyd.)Duke demands the reopening of the exchange after the close of business to attempt to recoup the $390 million his firm lost that day. “We founded this exchange, it’s ours! It …

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declassified.live broke the news in on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
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