rigged market

So not only do we have to pay to make corporates rich, but there is also a rigged market.

Let's call a rigged market what it is.

Admission to to tertiary education has become a commodity whose value is determined by a rigged market.

The financial sector makes money running a rigged market and placing counter bets against our pension investments (the same pensions they charge us to manage).

"The U.K. has been a rigged market in terms of pricing," said one, who insisted on anonymity.

Instead of sticking to routine condemnation of bill increases, he pledged to abolish a "rigged market" that had allowed them to achieve "dominance".

"The generators were working with a rigged market," Richard Hunt, a spokesman for the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, said.

There are no free (capitalist) markets - perhaps there have been notions of them - but in reality we live in rigged markets both nationally and internationally.

There is still a massive shortage of housing, demand hugely outstrips supply and rents have been excessively high, by means of a rigged market, for three decades now.

What is worse is that, with unrestriced rents and a rigged market, the taxpayer subsidises landlords to the tune of billions of pounds a year through housing benefit.

The Invisible Hand versus The Very Visible Neck of Human Excess.... social manipulation and rigged markets etc. etc.

Recurrent droughts, inadequate irrigation, skewed land distribution, and a rigged market all together have made Kosal a 'hunger belt' in Orissa over the half century since Independence.

European agriculture is simply sacrificed, and will soon be handed over to market forces alone; a rigged market, too, for it has been left defenceless against imports and denied access to export markets.

Sweeping aside one of the more embarrassing episodes it has faced recently, the Coca-Cola Company said yesterday that it had resolved its differences with Burger King over a rigged marketing test.

Several accusations against Coke, including the charges of the rigged marketing test at Burger King, surfaced in a lawsuit that was filed against Coke in May by a former employee.

Later in the year, the commission proposed to eliminate any cap on refunds that power companies might be compelled to pay if there was evidence that they had rigged markets or gouged power buyers.

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, is about hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and corporate socialism.

For example, Yoshio Terasawa of Mr. Hosokawa's New Party has proposed removing Finance Ministry regulations that now make the Tokyo Stock Exchange a rigged market.

The elite relies on rigged markets to preserve longstanding monopolies, the lack of tax collection and an institutionalized corruption that allows big importers to bring their goods into the country without paying duties or even standard port fees.

The films include Rigged Markets, Money Geyser, Death of the Dollar, Peaked, Extraordinary Antics, Savers vs Speculators, Banking On It, Private Finance or Public Swindle?

There is no law of physics that says the rich cannot be taxed to the hilt, yet justice demands they should since it is they who benefited from a rigged market of profit and a socialised system of bail-out.

There's no question who was in Miliband's frame: the bankers and vested interests of the corporate world, rigged markets, rip-off energy conglomerates, "cosy cartels" that control executive pay, and the companies so powerful "they can get away with anything".

Coca-Cola reached a $540,000 settlement with Matthew Whitley, a former executive who filed a lawsuit against the company asserting that he was fired after he raised concerns about accounting fraud and a rigged marketing test in Burger King restaurants.

Nor do they accept the realities of corruption and rigged markets - but any economist who believes the global energy markets, as they operate today, are examples of Adam Smith's 'free markets' are either liars or fools.

Since 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department had been looking into accusations of accounting fraud and rigged marketing schemes, which were first brought to light in a lawsuit by a whistle-blower, Matthew Whitley, who was a finance executive at Coke.