RE:RE:RE:RE:Friday's DropHow markets are rigged against you
Amanda Lang looks at ways the financial system is rigged in some people's favour
CBC NewsPosted: Dec 09, 2013 12:45 PM ET
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/how-markets-are-rigged-against-you-1.2456677
"Historically, the system works because people have confidence in the rules and believe they are treated the same as anybody else.
But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the stories of powerful people cheating the system for their own gain. As the bad apples add up, it gets harder and harder to ignore a troubling realization — “everything is rigged.”
Taibbi has concluded that the entire system underpinning the global economy is rigged in some form or another. And it’s not just financial markets that are at stake. The real economy, with factories, services, goods and jobs for real people, is under threat."