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The Cost No One Talks About: Lost Time

Financial misrepresentation doesn’t just drain accounts, it steals years. Lost time, lost stability, and lost peace of mind can never be repaid. For many harmed investors, especially retirees, the real cost isn’t money. It’s the life that could have been lived instead.

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InvestorJustice.org | Editorial

Financial losses can be repaired.

Time cannot.

When a platform misleads investors, especially seniors, the harm isn’t just measured in dollars. It’s measured in the months or years spent fighting for answers, searching for records that should exist, navigating conflicting jurisdictions, and trying to rebuild a financial life that was stable before the deception began.

Lost time is real harm.

Irreversible harm.

And regulators must treat it that way.

Every unnecessary delay, every missing document, every offshore detour compounds the damage.

Not because the balance sheet got worse but because the person lost something they will never get back: their time, their health, their peace, and their life momentum.

This is why timely enforcement matters.

This is why accountability cannot wait.

And this is why misrepresentation in financial services is not a paperwork issue, it is a human one.

InvestorJustice.org will continue documenting this truth:

When companies waste people’s time through deception, evasion, or delay, they are stealing something more precious than money.

They are stealing years.

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