LSE's junior Alternative Investment Market, because of rules on the main market against listing companies that sold short or did not have diversifiedinvestments.
Only the very rich--Roman senators, imperial generals and the like--had the diversifiedinvestments that allowed them to escape the poverty and dangers that engulfed virtually everyone else.
Under this provision, intended to ensure that taxes do not deter capable people from accepting government jobs, Mr Paulson is able to exchange his holdings in Goldman for various widely diversifiedinvestments.