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> They should have known those instruments were not of the quality they represented them to their customers. You're not wrong! And yet it seems very clear the

• solipsism 10y ago
  being stupid isn't a crime Doing stupid things is often a crime. It may not be in this particular case, but it's not true that lack of criminal intent is always exculpatory.
• cheiVia0 10y ago
  > Did you make a ton of money betting against the housing market? If not, why not? Or if you were too young/poor, then do you know anyone who did? Considering there was no product to bet against the housing market, your options are: (1) Be a hedge fund manager of a large enough hedge fund to enter a custom derivative contract with a bank, to create the product (which is what those funds that made a ton of money betting against the housing market did) (2) Have a few million for the minimum to investment in one the said hedge funds So I'd say the answer for most people is "were too poor".
• camelite 10y ago
  > And yet it seems very clear they did not know this. And therein rests your case. But you appear to be simply taking them at their word on this, to me. Unsophisticated observers will say, "Why would they do something so colossally stupid that it'd bankrupt their firm". But the person is not the firm. The person quite often can permanently enrich himself on the path to firm-wide dissolution.