[lelio]

Of course GS didn't "force" anyone to buy stocks. However if you didn't buy the stocks then they didn't do business with you. Gives GS deniability.

[blackdog]

I think I am going to sue American Express Financial Advisors in order to get a discovery look-see at the reports their in house analysts and accountants put together on the lipsticked pig stocks. They lost $100,000,000 on Worldcom alone. These funds were just defrauding investors. Technically they forced nobody to buy the funds, but we did tape record our last several meetings with our advisor. I would say we were coerced.