The $6bn£4bnbn) doled out to America's cotton farmers in 2014 – part of a $41bn payout for agriculture – is undermining prices and markets for producers in west Africa.
Rental car companies, hurt by declining airline traffic, are dumping their cars onto the used-car market at a higher rate than they did in recent years, further undermining prices.
The utilities also limit integration between markets and lead to an absence in data transparency, which undermines pricing mechanisms.
In addition, others point out, the globalization of markets makes it possible for a lower price here to undermine prices at home.
While often stunning, the reproductions undermined prices for originals.
What Fisher pointed out, however, was that such selloffs are self-defeating when everyone does it: if everyone tries to sell assets at the same time, the resulting plunge in market prices undermines debtors' financial positions faster than debt can be paid off.
Is the market constantly undermining itself?
The American talk about energy independence rankles Saudi officials, who maintain that the goal is unrealistic and could end up damaging energy markets by undermining investment now, thus leading to higher prices in the long run.
More than anything, overcapacity undermines pricing power.
The lack of demand-side response, short-term reliability management procedures and non-market ancillary services provision often undermine market reflective scarcity pricing and distort long-term investment incentives.
The Japanese market's fall from a record high at the end of 1989 was swift, as the market was undermined by a weakening yen, rising interest rates, higher oil prices and politicial uncertainty.
