I'm pretty sure I read about this from this HN before. Take for example the story of the 15 year old that found out how to drum up stocks and turn a profit and the SEC barely does anything when they find out because they don't want the public to learn about the practices on Wall Street.<p><a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/~rbb/risd/Lebed.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.brown.edu/~rbb/risd/Lebed.html</a>
Zero Hedge has been my main source of financial news for almost a year. They've been out in front of some big stories that shine a light through some dark spaces.
There are much more enjoyable readings on ZH. =)
It is one of them: <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-%E2%80%93-our-collective-psychosis-chapter-one" rel="nofollow">http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-%E2%8...</a>