Meanwhile, a long-time market observer, Howard Gold, quotes the president of a prominent advising firm as saying the Fed is "definitely in the market-manipulation business," meaning a Yellen put will follow the Bernanke put, which followed the Greenspan put.
A general official document handling business model was created that focuses on documents and their manipulation.
Disruption can come from culture, service, work ethic, aggregation, smart use of real estate and probably a dozen other factors, and what we look at as technological disruption is often in fact use of a technology, but, more importantly, change in service level and manipulation of business plan.
"Using the reserve for price manipulation is dangerous business," said Ian Shepherdson, chief domestic economist with High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y.
Class-action suits are a sure-fire bet and the fallout from the alleged foreign-exchange manipulation remains unfinished business.
Public policy needs to be in the realm of reality and not in political pandering and big business manipulation.
The surprise to him, he said, is how little traditional agencies seem to understand how much tracking and data manipulation threaten their businesses.
Both Mr. Chen and Mr. Soong have gained from their campaigning against "black gold" in politics, the term here for the business manipulations, alliances with mobsters and vote buying that have plagued Taiwanese politics.
Inciting anger at the powerless (such as the poor) is always a tactic of manipulation by the powerful (business interests).
