Whatever happened at ImClone is paltry compared to the manipulation of the share price at American Can, as described by Ripley.

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So local courts do not even have the experience and the jurisprudence to try cases of price manipulation and insider trading as no such case has ever been brought to them before.

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Prosecutors have appealed against a judgment in June that acquitted Lone Star of charges of share-price manipulation.

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He was a victim of a scandal involving alleged share-price manipulation at a sister firm fighting a takeover bid.

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Usually, it will be cloaked in terms like full employment, price stability, temporary stimulus, quantitative easing, and economic growth, but manipulation of the money supply serves only to favor the issuers of that particular monetary unit.

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And since price rationing allows individualism through personal valuation the social engineers have even engrossed themselves into the manipulation of the medium of exchange, or the money that we use to place value on the goods, services, resources, investments, interest, and wages that are critical to an economy.

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