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If manipulation was already happening how could he suddenly be the linchpin? Wouldn't it make more sense that he was one of many who paid to manipulate the rat
by dsmithatx 11y ago
If manipulation was already happening how could he suddenly be the linchpin? Wouldn't it make more sense that he was one of many who paid to manipulate the rate and profit? I think he just found an opportunity others had already been exploiting. I'd call him the scapegoat who ended taking up most of the blame.
- lotharbot 11y agoif he significantly increased the level of manipulation (by systematizing it and coordinating between multiple banks, when prior manipulation had been each of the banks working independently) he would absolutely qualify as a linchpin.
- gnoway 11y agoIn the same way anyone who comes into a situation where they are more competent than the people they replace become a linchpin. If you come in and make a thing a lot better than anyone else in your organization is capable of making it, you become the go-to person for that thing.