"rather than having to eat the lunch they'd made for themselves with their own levels of risk-taking" This is sort of the big problem. All the money being made

"rather than having to eat the lunch they'd made for themselves with their own levels of risk-taking" This is sort of the big problem. All the money being made is justified by citing the risk banks/traders/funds take and yet we are constantly told that X is a good thing because it increases liquidity/decreases risk.