To practice plunder; to commit robbery. In time of war, rapacious men are let loose to spoliate on commerce.
One of the investment accounts still left over from my dad’s estate is, in my opinion, a little sketchy. I won’t identify it but it had produced consistent but modest returns during the recent market tribulations. “consistent but modest” is the new scam alert. I was somewhat relieved to find that the latest dividend check was worth significantly less than has been typical for that account, an account which is not tied directly to the stock markets and thus has reasonable expectations of dodging the bullets that have punctured the values of so many other holdings. I remain a bit suspicious, though, as I imagine that the dividends might have been artificially lowered to meet expectations and avoid scrutiny.
