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  Brian - we are yet to see what the motivation for Adoboli was but for Leesom he was driven on by fear and the need of a gambler to make up initial losses.
  
  Brown though had no excuses his motivation was sheer stupidity and the man thought he knew best even when his advisers and the experts say differently. I suspect there was/is something very psychologically wrong with him as he had a tendency to ignore expert advice on many recorded issues, to do his own thing, all of which led to huge problems. Would anyone in their right mind announce publicly they were going to sell a commodity in the certain knowledge it would drive the price down further from what was already a record low? There is one reason someone would do that, of course, market manipulation - an illegal act in order to make huge profits. I do not personally believe that Brown was involved in that kind of illegality which is why I believe the answer is a psychological one.

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