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by fractionalhare 1904 days ago
I don't personally have any skin in the game, but of course I blame him for losing his money. It's his fault, who else would I blame? Pretty cut and dry case of terrible risk management here. What seems controversial?

Nobody held a gun to his head and told him to load up crazy leverage on a highly concentrated basket of equities... And the banks that lent him money didn't have transparency as to his leverage elsewhere.