Dr. Joyce Brothers must not have been available, so I guess Anupreeta Das of Reuters had to go with second stringers to remote-psychoanalyze the people arrested in the Galleon Hedge fund insider trading scheme last week.
He interviews a consultant from security firm Kroll on "why they do it," a lot less interesting than the related question "how" did they get away with it, which would also require a lot less pure guessing on the part of the interviewee.
A stream of otherwise respectable college professors show up to give psychobabble and thrills and hubris and related topics.
This story is the result of a reporter looking for something new to say about the story and going fishing when there was no actual news to report.
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