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December 1, 2013

SEC Hotshots Don’t Ride to the Rescue Once Again


         “Fiduciary capacity” is an ethical standard of trust imposed by law on one who holds another’s money for investment, basically requiring said holder to act prudently, meaning, in Wall Street terms anyway, in the sucker’s interest instead of your own.

         Laughably, the Securities and Excuses Commission (SEC) has always exempted Crime Family goons calling themselves “stockbrokers” from this legal burden.  No matter how they screw you, or how badly, those thugs CANNOT BE SUED FOR BREACH OF FIDUCIARY CAPACITY like employees in, say, a bank trust department would - for doing the same f#$&!ng thing, whatever it may be.

         Recently, in another passive action appropriately ignored in the media, some advisory panel has proposed that our hotshots at the SEC start doing the right thing.  Since that hasn’t happened in the eight decades or so since the worthless, lollygagging, good-for-nothing agency was stuffed down our perpetually victimized financial gizzards, it seems prudent to assume this ain’t going down any time soon.

         Here’s the one piece we could find about this non-development anyway.  We keep our subscribers informed about nothing when nothing’s happening too.