The wide range of revenue generating activities at investment banks have all been perfectly legal for so long now -– despite the many potential conflicts of interest — that it’s difficult to appreciate the SEC finally getting around to calling a spade a spade.

What’s far more surprising is what the SEC’s been up to in all of its spare time. Given their newly publicized occupational habits, one can only imagine what kind of “documents” this character pulled from his overflowing “X” file to tote around today. 

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