i did state illegal manipulation should be eliminated. That's a...

i did state illegal manipulation should be eliminated.

That's a limited set isn't it? The extent to which manipulation occurs that is technically within the law is another and much more serious point. Proving conspiracy for instance, is a ridiculously high standard requiring colossal amounts of investigation at huge cost.

It's the cost of compliance that makes these circumstances and the regulators the joke that that they are. Everyone knows they get played; precisely how, varies.

Then we get a lecture about narrow self-interest. Without any irony whatsoever.