After finishing the work at hand, Lin Qi casually picked up the latest newspaper.
Apart from an introduction to the massive strike on the front page, the second page still focused on the major events of recent days.
Half the page introduced the progress of the World Development Committee's negotiations, while the other half recorded the latest developments in the "Silver Case."
Through the cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several other agencies, most of the participants had been identified. The Federation had yet to move against the international participants, but some people domestically... would not be able to escape.
Among a list of more than thirty names, Lin Qi spotted several that were very familiar.
People who traded futures basically all lived in Bu Peien.
If they played big, they were bound to have some reputation in this not-so-large city.
Seeing those people he had once met at certain salons or heard stories about now being deemed guilty of "maliciously driving up silver prices and harming the market" and subjected to investigation, Lin Qi sighed sympathetically.
In fact, as far as the capital market was concerned, the Federal Government had no authority to interfere with market activity on its own initiative.
These people's speculation in silver was itself a free market activity. In some respects, they had indeed gone a little too far.
But there was nothing wrong with their actions in themselves.
Hoarding goods to drive up their prices, then selling the hoarded goods for profit once the returns were high enough—wasn't that exactly what capitalists had done most often during the early development of capitalism?
What right did the Federal Government have to declare this operation illegal?
If it considered this operation illegal, then most activity in the Federation's markets would be illegal! But no