“Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.”

—  Joel Spolsky

"Wall Street Survival 101" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/WallSt101.html

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