"If the DOL writes a rule, is it really a regulation at all if nobody is there to enforce it other than a bunch of freelancing tort lawyers? It's a metaphysical and legal questions that hangs over the [DOL's] imposition of fiduciary responsibility over IRA assets where it has no jurisdiction to mete out justice against financial advisors who put their own interests ahead of clients. It's the [IRS] that oversees Individual Retirement Accounts. So what gives?"

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