In reply to your rhetorical question

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Submitted by Belladonna Rogers (United States), Jan 27, 2014 17:15

Your second paragraph poses this question: What does it say about our system of financial regulation that if you want to start a new consumer-facing investment business the set-up creates incentives to hire government officials to "grease the skids" with their former colleagues?

Answer: Everything, and none of it good.

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