If they find the "Traders" on Wall St. that caused the price clime of gas prices. Should they be prosicuted?

Question

At times like this those concienceless asses should do time. Find some way to recoup their profits and put to some bennifit to support those that they hurt the most.

Answer 1

If it is illegal and criminal.send them to jail and fine them ten times the profit they made................

Answer 2

If they committed any crime (which is doubtful since future trading is perfectly legal), yes. Preferably by someone who knows how to spell correctly.

Answer 3

No.  Its a free country. Capitalism is one of the many things that makes this country great.

Answer 4

Its the Rockefellers and Rothschilds who rule the market (and our economy). It doesn't matter what the president does or who he is, said Rothschild, if I own the money, then I rule the world.

Answer 5

Prosecuted for what?  The traders are speculating on what they think the price of gas is going to do in the future.  They are taking a risk that they are right.  They didn't do anything illegal.  Sorry if you don't like the results but it is part of a free-market system.

Answer 6

No. They should be made to pay back the money they stole. Maybe something like free gas cards to everybody.

Answer 7

in the beginning there were those who speculated that the price of gas would go down and there were those that speculated that the price would go up.   More spec''d on the upward movement and were willing to pay more to acquire the stock.    Then after acquiring it managed to sell it to someone who was willing to pay even more.

  You do the same thing when you sell your car.  Everybody wants to make a profit.

The snowball effect.

Answer 8

Never heard were it was a crime, but believe they can be hit with fine, and if caught in the act made to sell positions at a loss. Asks the Hunt Brothers.