sgregs wrote:SWalsh wrote:
I worked on the Street for 25 years and finished as a CEO. I feel very strong about the lack of ethics and mindless debt accumulation and intervention. There used to be a "prudent man" rule and "know your customer" rule. ZIRP essentially breaks both of those customer platforms by pushing investors into unsuitable risk based securities. How can any regulatory agency or Central Bank allow a market to trade on the "hint" of QE whatever policy instead of fundamentals and qualitative TA analysis? "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." Aesop
If you walked onto a trading floor and asked "Could you tell me what The Prudent Man Rule is?" or the "Know Your Customer Rule is?, you'd get a deer in the headlights look.
I guarantee you that I KNOW the FBI, the SEC, the CFTC, and the Manhattan DA has never had an interest in anything unless it was massive, a true headline getter, and material that would generate promotions.
What has happened here is that cases brought against "banks" have been dropped and in one case a lawyer who would not drop it was fired and awarded $700,000 for wrongful termination.
It has been a policy of "hands off who we bail out". Bush isn't as guilty, but the DOJ leadership primarily comes from a Holder law firm that specialized in representing white collar criminals. Just like Fannie and Freddie, The Chicago Thug Machine is grabbing every penny they can while oppressing the American people. I don't like politicians because I have a particular window into our state senate and that saying of "you don't want to see sausage or the law made", is quite true. But I'd cut my right hand off before I voted for a democrat that gave us this incompetent president who violates his oath of office and send the signal to all crooks that it's going to be a big payday as long as they love him long time.