No, that is not my point. My point is that the rule of law is not being respected by the current people in power, thus the manipulation that is prevalent cannot be checked. The police and gatekeepers have looked the other way.

If you look into history, there are many documented cases of market manipulation, just not in the textbooks that were studied in the education system. Here is the REAL Black Friday (and not the shopping kind that we know today)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%281869%29

The Titanic disaster was the result of the Captain not respecting the risks of his profession. He had to accept his fate after the horses left the barn.

In the 1900s you still had the free press and your representatives, to a certain degree, actually did their jobs and fought for common welfare. Not the case today unfortunately.