when you are involved in fiat trades, derivatives, futures, etc that there’s no way to pay foror cover if they get called, it can be stressful. and you may know too much to keep living.
Yes. In 2008 the government wrote blank checks to bankers to prop up the system. But there is absolutely no willingness to do that again. No only that, but the SEC is finally starting to punish them for illegal behavior, although so far they are getting fined instead of thrown in prison. These bankers are caught in a trap where what their superiors told them to do was illegal, and instead of getting rewarded for it, they are now seeing that they are the bagholders.
Regardless... that is still a staggering number.