cupidity - kyoo-PID-it-ee - greed (especially for money or possessions), avarice, rapaciousness

Example: "In his most explosive film to date ('Capitalism: A Love Story'), Flint native Michael Moore attacks the gross cupidity of financial powers like Goldman Sachs which, he sets out to prove in this thought-inducing documentary, are powerful enough to control Congress & the secretaries of the Treasury at the expense of the common taxpayer."