In works like «Bill Clinton, the Lippo Group, and Jackson Stephens of Little Rock, Arkansas 5th Version» Mark Lombardi researched relationships among the world's most powerful people: politicians,
financial manipulators, out - and - out crooks, and laid them out on huge drawings in the form of diagrammatic networks.
The irony was that most of Mrs. Thatcher's friends and heroes were businessmen — manufacturers who made or dealt in products, not
financial manipulators.
Not exact matches
What results is a situation where a talk show host must deliver a knockout blow to a world class debater and notorious
manipulator, with only his reputation and the
financial future of many riding on getting something out of Nixon no hardnosed journalist had been able to get in years of covering the Watergate scandal — admission of guilt in abusing the power of office.
Until the early 20th century,
financial journalists knew exactly what they were doing, as many of them were paid overtly or covertly by market
manipulators to promote or trash various investments... Nowadays, most
financial journalists are honest, which is progress — and ignorant, which isn't.
They also give special attention to accrual accounting in the hopes of weeding out earnings
manipulators and run additional screens for probability of
financial distress.
The answer of course, is that that it is not simple, each case must be evaluated on its own merits to determine whether the latest
financial scandal was a systemic failure within a
financial institution or the devious ways of a master
manipulator or indeed as is most often the case, an uncertain mix of both with the heady addition of big juicy bonuses thrown in.
The government emphasized that market
manipulators and companies that initiate fraudulent operations will be heavily punished according to existing
financial regulations and policies.