Company executives are routinely caricatured as price-manipulating, environment-hating villains who are enriching themselves obscenely at the country's and the world's expense.
Company executives are routinely caricatured as price-manipulating, environment-hating villains who are enriching themselves obscenely at the U.S.' and the world's expense.
And the recent fiasco involving a painting's price being manipulated on eBay doesn't help.
They are also accused of making $430 million from sales of stock whose price they manipulated by misleading investors.
If the stock price is manipulated through a multiplication of stock buybacks, as occurred especially in 2003-2007, executive pay rises as well.
It has become an international "whipping post" and "the laughing stock of the world", jigged around by currency-manipulating Chinese and price-manipulating oil producers.
An alternative explanation, favored by company managements, he wrote, "is that short-sellers are actually manipulating prices, driving prices down over long periods of time".
The California attorney general's office is investigating whether natural gas prices were manipulated during the state's energy crisis, which stretched from the summer of 2000 into 2001.
The multistate suit, which is to be filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco, accuses the chip makers of conspiring to fix prices and manipulate supply from 1998 to 2002.
In February 2017, Citigroup paid an "administrative penalty" of 69.5 million Rand ($13 million) in South Africa for colluding to fix prices and manipulate financial markets.
It is the collapse of growth economics -- reflected in the way food prices are manipulated through speculation -- that is building anger across the developing world.
