Banks turn out to have rigged LIBOR, an interest rate used to peg contracts worth trillions.
The total includes a $203m fine after UBS pleaded guilty to a charge it rigged Libor benchmark interest rates.
Part of this, of course, is the ancient — and yet, for most Americans, oddly beclouded — reality that the constitutional system is rigged for rural interests over urban ones.
Not only are these gains being threatened every day, there are still workers who remain excluded from even the most basic protections like minimum wage and health and safety regulations, and workers who are tricked into exploitative visa programs rigged by corporate interests.
Even with a rigged system, the public interest can prevail over powerful industry interests, at least sometimes".
More than anything, people are angry that the game appears to be rigged by corporate special interests.
If the political class in Canberra rounds collectively on the stranger in its midst, deploys the blunt instruments of gotcha and when did you stop beating your wife, this will only confirm the worst fears of some deeply alienated voters that the system is rigged permanently against the interests of the people, that politics is about elites protecting their own patches.
The comments are not very flattering and support the regulators' war cry that analyst ratings and price targets were rigged to appease banking interests.
The well-off activists who took to the streets in the wake of rigged 2011 elections show little interest in the regions, or in their less fortunate co-citizens.
Haldeman, too, took a strong interest in the rigged mailings, and he wrote in a memo to Magruder that several people around the White House "will be responsible to work out a program over the next week for sending letters and telegrams, and making telephone calls to Senators, blasting them on their consistent opposition to the President on everything he is trying to do for the country.
