China Public About Manipulating Its Markets

We are on the midst of can be coined a “new world financial order.” Understanding this might start by examining China’s moves to apparently “intervene” as its stock market was plunging. Placing a bow around this package this morning was the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist James Stewart who made some interesting statements to benchmark history.

Will China’s short-sellers face a public firing squad? Or will punishment take place in private?

As China come off a crackdown on stock market manipulation, as reported earlier in the month, they are now said to be engaging in stock market manipulation of their own. Threats of harsh treatment doled...