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Shia LaBeouf

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridic

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Shia LaBeouf is saying that banks managing ordinary people's retirement savings should not gamble with those funds as if they were investing their own personal money like a wealthy investor might. He believes it is unreasonable and dangerous to treat everyday workers' pensions with the same high-risk strategies used by professional hedge funds.

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