All one great big lie.

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.
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Fundamental Greed Investors Money Running
In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules.
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Impossible Lying Today
In today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate rules … but it’s impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.
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Impossible Scandal Today Violation
The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who’s selling it to him does not know. There’s no zero sum game in Wall Street.
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Convinced Games Selling Wall Zero
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is ‘the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you’.
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Better Deal Giving Greed Wall Worse
All one great big lie.
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Corruption Lying Scandal
It’s a proprietary strategy. I can’t go into it in great detail.
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Corruption Details Scandal
Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.
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Bigs Disadvantage Person Street Wall War
The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.
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Government Scheme Schemes

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