What’s it like to lose £350m? A rogue trader confesses

Hardly anyone talks of the table of virtues and vices anymore — which includes the Seven Deadly Sins — but in reviewing them, we find that they nicely sum up the foundation of bourgeois ethics, and provide a solid moral critique of the modern state.……….we do need to observe that vices and virtues — and our conception of what constitutes proper behavior and culture generally — have a strong bearing on the rise and decline of freedom.

— Llewellynn H. Rockwell Jr.

What’s it like to lose £350m? A rogue trader confesses

Dienstag - 09.05.2017

By investing in precarious deals and covering up his losses, Alexis Stenfors cost one of the world’s biggest banks a fortune. Andrew Anthony asks why doesn’t he feel more remorse

Andrew Anthony Sunday 7 May 2017

In 2009, shortly after the global markets had suffered their worst crisis for 90 years, Alexis Stenfors was working as a currency trader for Merrill Lynch in London. With 15 years’ experience, he was good at his job and he prided himself on his ability to read the markets. His view was that the whole financial system was going to go “belly up”. That was what he was betting on.

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