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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHookers and Hecklers........
.......... Sorry, this thread is about neither, but about banksters.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Faced with a rash of insider trading in the markets, federal prosecutors and securities regulators in recent years have stepped up efforts to crack down on violations.
But insider trading and market fraud persist, perhaps at epidemic levels. Even though the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought more insider-trading actions in the past three years than in any three-year period in the agencys history, and even though the U.S. attorney in New York City has convicted 73 people in insider-trading cases since 2009, the crime remains all too common.
Thats what MarketWatch found in a series of interviews with people convicted of insider trading and fraud. These felons painted a picture of an unfair market driven by widespread cheating that favors those with privileged information and expensive technology. The cheating also hurts individual investors and retirement savers trying to follow the rules of the road and produces a deeply unfair market environment.
MarketWatch reporters conducted a series of in-depth interviews with exinvestment brokers and others who lost their trading licenses and are either in prison serving multiyear sentences or have done their time in the slammer and now advise others on what not to do. ....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/madoff-other-felons-say-markets-are-rigged-2013-06-05?dist=afterbell
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Hookers and Hecklers........ (Original Post)
marmar
Jun 2013
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JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)1. You got my attention!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)2. Pitbulls smoking cigarettes in an Olive Garden were caught heckling breastfeeding hookers!
*pant, pant, pant* Did I get them all?
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)6. They were discussing the death penalty ...
while sitting under a Confederate flag.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)8. The pitbulls were circumcised.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)4. Damn you! I thought this thread was about "hooklers". nt
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)5. Dang! Too broke to care!
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Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)7. Aww, I was looking for flamebait.
Instead I got an informative article about the real criminals & how they prospered...
Thanks! Great info!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)9. Du rec. Nt
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)10. welcome relief
from the pitbull haters