# Everything is rigged

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 27, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-is-rigged/656864 "2013-04-27T22:39:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-is-rigged/656864/1 "2013-04-27T22:39:37Z")

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According to Rolling Stones magazine, the international swaps market, the interest rates based on it, and perhaps ultimately the price of everything that is bought and sold, is rigged at the top by the major players:

> **[Taibbi: No Price Big Banks Can't Fix](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-price-fixing-scandal-ever-82255/)**
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> The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks

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> The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix
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> Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

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> Two of America’s top law-enforcement officials, Attorney General Eric Holder and former Justice Department Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer, confessed that it’s dangerous to prosecute offending banks because they are simply too big. Making arrests, they say, might lead to “collateral consequences” in the economy.

ETA: so is this more 'business as usual, what did you expect?", or is it really as earthshaking as the author suggests- that the entire global economy is ultimately based on fraud?

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-is-rigged/656864/2 "2013-04-27T22:57:17Z")

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Aren’t we doing this in another thread?

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-is-rigged/656864/3 "2013-04-27T23:07:01Z")

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Aren’t we doing this in another thread?

That thread was rigged.