Well there's your problem right there.

[rubato]

Lack of effective regulation strikes again. Obaaaamaaaaa, are you listening?



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rubato

[Sue U]

The problem is largely a lack of personnel and resources. These are complex cases that require many many man-hours of investigation and analysis to prepare a prosecution. See how willing Congress is to fund that.

[Andrew D]

Which is largely the same problem.

Congress -- especially now that the House has been taken over by the teabaggers -- does not want the regulations to exist at all. But repealing them, or even attempting to repeal them, would be a PR disaster, so Congress chooses instead not to fund their enforcement.

Different means; same result.

[dgs49]

Seems like a rather lame attempt to make a point. The number of prosecutions may simply be a result of a trend to go strongly after the biggest fish rather than prosecuting as many suspects as possible.

I don't know if this is the case, but it seems to me that someone writing on the subject (or creating a graph) would want to see what is behind the numbers, rather than just publishing raw data that may be meaningless.