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HomeAre Electricity Markets Being Manipulated in Texas?
Posted by Larry Doyle on May 7th, 2014 8:58 AM |
Market manipulation is certainly not restricted to Wall Street.
In fact, I believe the most egregious case of market manipulation goes back to the early years of this century when traders in a Houston based firm known as Enron — you remember the names Lay, Fastow, and Skilling, right — manipulated the California electricity market. While Enron rolled in the dough, the only things rolling through the California countryside were blackouts.
Well, how interesting that ten-plus years later we revisit Houston to see the name Enron invoked once again in a case alleging manipulation of the electricity markets right there in Texas. Let’s navigate as the Courthouse News Service recently reported: (more…)
