Read This If: You're Interested in How Much The Federal Government MAY Intentionally Manipulate Financial Markets

Found a great blog article that while it seems a bit of conjecture, I suspect a number of the points made are on the money... Not so certain about the Fed Reserve Hedge Fund run out of the Caribbean though.

The article states that the "The Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the Fed, Chairman of the SEC, and Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are known as the 'Four Financial Dictators.' Their job is to grow and preserve the power of the state to socially and financially engineer society."

The article integrates discussion of executive order 12631 and the absurd run-up in GM lately to reinforce article validity.

Here's the Article: "General Motors, Market Engineering, and Confidence Protection"