matthutch

Allen Stanford, Ponzi Operator

"truly, the REAL crooks are the investment bankers who concocted every kind of oddball derivative imaginable in order to have something that they could make a commission from selling"

how can you call a person who does this a crook? do you ever see infomercials or pass the home shopping network on the way to another station? i see a bunch of pretty oddball stuff for sell, all to help them "make a commission [of sorts] from selling". back in their respective days, cars, radios, tvs, personal computers, cell phones, etc were all fairly oddball such that many people never expected them to catch on commercially. just b/c you don't (and it turns out they and many people who bought them) understand them, doesn't mean they are crooks for coming up with them, even as we look back and see there were problems.