All investment funds contain risk.
The PB Post Op Ed board are rabid anti-capitalist Marxist of the worst kind.
When I saw your thread headline, I thought “PB Post” had something to do with more ravings from Pat Bucannon. Instead it is the ravings of a Marxist newspaper.
When we start encouraging the regulators and Congress-critters to get involved in limiting access to financial markets, those markets will just find their way to overseas markets and America will see another important role it used to have going away. Investors come in all sizes and shapes. Some are speculators and some are passive investors. They all play a role in our economy and the speculators provide liquidity for the entire system.
I just shake my head everytime I see Congress trying to “fix” something. The unintended consequences are always overlooked, ignored and under-appreciated. Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson” should be required reading (and rereading) for every member of Congress and for every top official in all the bureaucracies in the US government.