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Allegedly, Wall Street did use similar tactics to sell crop futures, and there was a famine. See http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman... (note: annoying registration prompt, but registration is free or you can use your browser's webdev tools to remove the overlay) and http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari...
(Disclaimer: I haven't checked any of the claims in these articles.)
[EDITED to add: of course maybe AnthonyMouse's "Suppose that ..." was a rhetorical trick and his whole point is that it really did happen.]
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Allegedly, Wall Street did use similar tactics to sell crop futures, and there was a famine. See http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman... (note: annoying registration prompt, but registration is free or you can use your browser's webdev tools to remove the overlay) and http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari...
(Disclaimer: I haven't checked any of the claims in these articles.)
[EDITED to add: of course maybe AnthonyMouse's "Suppose that ..." was a rhetorical trick and his whole point is that it really did happen.]