How not to be victimized by Wall Street legal crime

In our post of January 20, 2021, titled How to avoid hidden fees and prosper, we stated:

“More crime, much of it legal, is committed on Wall Street before noon than any other place in the course of an entire year. (“Behind most great wealth, there is a great crime.” Honoré de Balsac)”

Legal crime? The list is long and goes back to ancient times.

Examples:

• You and I would go to jail for trading on insider information but until recently, that did not apply to members of the US congress.
• Jim Crow laws  enforcing racial segregation
• Going back to the 18 century BC, the code of Hammurabi included the death penalty for harvesting timber illegally
• Numerous presidential pardons, a continuation of many-hundred-year-old royal pardons
• The treatment of women in many Islamic countries

Millions of investors are victimized by Wall Street crime, much of it legal. Here is what we can say about that.