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Latest Market Manipulation News

China's CSRC to Crack Down on Market Manipulation
The China Securities Regulatory Commission is currently examining recent short-selling activity for stock-index futures amid the slump in equity markets, said people with knowledge of the matter. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle has more on "First Up ...
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Oil refiners are manipulating California gas prices, consumer advocates say
California state senators have for years held meetings and launched preliminary probes on the subject of price fixing and market manipulation, even asking the U.S. Justice Department in 2012 to examine refineries one by one. The efforts, including a ...
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China has uncovered 'major' evidence of market manipulation, and has turned ...
China's stock market regulator, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has released six cases of information fabrication and vowed to work with the police to crack down on market rumors. According to state-run newswire Xinhua, on June 5 the ...
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Latest Democracy News

Despite taboos, political consultants in Nigeria advance democracy | TheHill
Advising foreign campaigns is common and lucrative practice for American political consultants. AKPD and Potomac Square have both played prominent roles in UK elections. However, it is considered taboo in countries where democracy is underdeveloped, ...
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Democracy is not simply a yes-or-no vote, in Hong Kong or elsewhere | South ...
Ever since Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras prematurely declared his government's bailout referendum a "victory of democracy", I have been struck by how far politicians are willing to mangle the idea of democracy. The demos were, in fact, being ...
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The Tories, trade unions and British democracy under threat | Letters ...
The Tories, trade unions and British democracy under threat. Asian Power List. Business secretary Sajid Javid. 'The often deployed statistic on Tory plans to discipline the unions is that they only have the backing of 24% of the electorate themselves ...
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Latest Government Statistics News

Mexican government wants to tame disruptive teachers' union
Between 2006 and 2010, the teachers missed an average of 64 school days per year due to strikes and walkouts, according to government statistics. Since the teacher-testing plan passed, teachers have again staged massive protests and canceled classes ...
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CPS must add girls sports at 12 high schools to resolve federal probe
Lane Tech had the largest gap in terms of the number of girls participating in sports, according to statistics distributed by the government. Girls made up 55 percent of the student body, those figures said, but only 40 percent of its athletes. The ...
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Latest Plutocracy News

Bernie Sanders Is The Future Of The Democratic Party
... it's intuitively or on purpose? Just think about the emotional core (often confused as an intellectual position), the rhetoric, and the focus that propels most ideas liberal toss around about inequality, plutocracy, “democracy” and role of ...
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Lockport volunteers promote city with fantasy collector cards
The story details an alternate history of Lockport, where the city prospered until it had “fallen into darkness” and was run by a reclusive tyrant and a ruthless plutocracy. “I'm an art guy. It's what I do for a living,” Streit said about his ...
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