How can this be legal? If you or I orchestrated a smackdown like this we'd be locked up. Of course this happens frequently; I'm aware it is a repeating pattern. But the degree and obviousness of the market manipulation every so often tweaks my anger. A lot. And to think we Americans pay our body politic to orchestrate this illegal/immoral stuff.

As Henry David Thoreau said, capturing my attention and the birth of my board name,

"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

Strike