Originally Posted by SoulSurfer
"just numbers on a screen" refers to the following concept:
If you believe in PIPS and you believe in Bryan then you must also believe that all the money that the computer programs were telling everybody they had in their accounts, big money, was there last August. After all, that is what PIPS/Bryan was representing to the investors.
Then the bank stepped in and "froze" the accounts, so the money must ALL still be there. If you don't think it is, then why were the numbers saying it was; if it wasn't there, why were the numbers saying it was. What did the numbers mean? Why was Bryan maintaining that investors had umpteen thousand dollars in their individual accounts if they didn't really?
If the money really wasn't there last August, when did the "misrpresentation" start? The day before? The week before? Beginning of last year? OR when the program was designed? Who would do that? Why is there any need for a "restructure" when PIPS was telling everyone that all that money was there last August?
Answer me that, and I will stop being such a nuisance!