i have a link to a 46 page PDF that is research into trying to establish the Fed has partnered with Goldman Sachs to take the FREE out of freemarket.
i will try to find it, i put it on a message somewhere.
i did print it out.
You get the feeling that the NSA/Fed/and WH are determined to hold up market whatever it takes---it all goes back to the unlimited power given to Fed by the proclamation of 1987 and they, it is conjectured, since 9/11 have maintained they can do absolutely anything to manipulate marketplace on the grounds of national security.
The incredible run-up post the London Bombing would be a classic example
This concentrates a good deal on Fed/GS working together to control futures market.