The irony of this whole situation is that the registered investment advisors so fervently taking offense to the post are not the types of brokers we were talking about in the article.

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One source of the data inaccuracies is that FINRA and the SEC have two completely different registration systems each revealing different types of information about the brokers on their respective systems.

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Borrowers get too easy a ride: not all of them were unsophisticated types, duped by commission-obsessed brokers.

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