May 4, 2009 Now, I'm not saying any of these companies are bad or evil. And I don't know whether our new climate of parsimony means the "greed is good" era of the 1980s is dead or not. What I do know is which stocks are in a position to profit today and which aren't. Here's a fun look at some stocks that symbolize the 7 Deadly Sins and how I expect them to perform.