Just browse these forums- the posts from self managers aren't celebrating their savings and how "passive" their income is, they are all people who have fallen in to either costly or legal issue or both and they don't have the experience or resources to get out. 

So add the advertised high rate of return when things are good when money can flow out to investors, plus celebrities at their investment forums and it seems very attractive.

So in fact he becomes a Celebrity type persona in the RE field and its far easier for projects where he is seen as the face of the company to raise money from Folks that are really investing based on his popularity on BP. 

Sandy our managers wife made a cake so we could celebrate valentines while there.  .     

Additionally, many of the podcast hosts, guests and YouTube celebrities are not good operators and you should be very careful before investing with them.

The event sparked national outrage, political condemnation, and debate, with Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval and other officials denouncing the violence and calling for accountability, while controversial comments from a city council member, Victoria Parks, who suggested the victims "begged for that beatdown," the victims "begged for that beatdown," the victims "begged for that beatdown," the victims "begged for that beatdown," Seems like that's not supportive of the victimsWho's side is the council on?

On the flip side, I've seen controversial comments that are related to politics not get removed Here are my controversial comments "Pizza Hut is better than Domino's"  and "Coca Cola is better than Pepsi" hahahaPosts that meet certain criteria are edited or deleted as necessary.

It used to be my job to protect our celebrity clients from so called investment specialists who promised more than the investment was worth and delivered less or nothing at all.

No Can Google/research celebrate you on each little and big success?

If you find a piece of paper with "I promise to pay the bearer of this promissory note $1T" printed on it most people would have the sense to not start celebrating because they know it's not backed by anything.