The
very limited Barclays prosecution comes in the wake
of a half-hearted investigation effort, which has thus
far completely let off all those who took the world
economy to the verge of a crisis akin to the Great Depression.
It is not clear if anything will finally come out of
even this case, which is aimed at merely teaching a
lesson to those who hurt a bunch of financial investors
by violating insider rules.
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article was originally published in the Frontline Print
edition: July 21, 2017. |