I know one truth about financial advisers. They have extremely strict rules on what they publish.

I have had many Financial Advisers call and want to hire us, and they always ask what we would recommend for the issue around the strict rules of approval. Publishing one blog post could take 6 months to get approved.

This got me thinking. I understand that the financial sector was regulating what their associates could say for what they thought were good reasons.

But maybe if they did not have the restrictions more people could have had an honest opinion. Maybe people working in the same company would have had differing opinions on what was going on. And maybe some of those people would have been smart enough to publically question the practices that have lead to these problems.

Then again, maybe many of them were just jumping on the easy money bandwagon and they would not have even though twice about it.