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Re:Why the S.E.C. didn't hit Goldman Sachs harder by carsongross on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:45PM (#11546123)
There isn't any great mystery here: it's regulatory capture. It's a well understood public choice problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

What's interesting to me is that quite smart people would expect the SEC to act otherwise.

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Re:Why the S.E.C. didn't hit Goldman Sachs harder by ArkyBeagle on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:21AM (#11547559)
Beats me why anybody would think that.

Did we learn nothing from "Point Break?" :)

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