The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.
Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
Crime does not pay as well as politics.