RE: RE: Re: re: profit rates

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Didn't Merrill-Lynch financial advisors recently get in trouble for selling
info that was inaccurate -- but helped the investment-banking side of the
business?
JD

Eric writes:
> In my experience private sector data producers--particularly
> those in the financial sector--sometimes produce a product that is very
> bad. Not all do, but many do.
>
> They often want to sell their data--or use their data to sell
> something else (pieces of paper!)--and this effects how the data is
produced
> and what it "says." Most government data producers do not have to "sell"
> their data to survive and, so, the market factor that might corrupt their
> data generation process is missing.