#Market-Manipulation
Events indexed under #Market-Manipulation — 23 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | Fourth Documented Iran-Announcement Oil Short: $920M in WTI/Brent Shorts at 3:40 AM ET, 70 Minutes Before Axios 'Memorandum of Understanding' Report; ~$125M Profit by 7:00 AM
5 src Donald Trump · The Kobeissi Letter · Axios · Commodity Futures Trading Commission · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Report Finds Trump Crypto Ventures Propelled by UAE Investment, Preferential Treatment, and Regulatory Shielding
1 src Democracy Defenders Fund · Lee Reiners · World Liberty Financial · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-12 | Eric Trump's American Bitcoin going public in latest crypto move by president's family
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Eric Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-23 | Trump offers private dinner to top 220 investors in his memecoin
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Cryptocurrency Investors · Sean Casten · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Greene bought market dip before Trump paused tariffs, profiting from the rally
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marjorie Taylor Greene | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145%
8 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | US-China Tariff Escalation Reaches 145% as Tit-for-Tat Retaliation Nears Total Decoupling
7 src Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump implements massive tariffs as concerns mount over market manipulation
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Senate Democrats · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Makes Massive Ethereum Purchases Amid Market Volatility
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-19 | Melania Trump launches $MELANIA coin with suspicious trading netting insiders $99.6M
4 src Melania Trump · Cryptocurrency traders · World Liberty Financial · Sen. Chris Murphy | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration
12 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy
4 src Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-19 | Trump Second NFT Collection Sells Out While Revealing Substantial Digital Asset Income
3 src Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC · CIC Digital LLC | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales
4 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-13 | 2020 Congressional COVID Insider Trading Scandal Exposes Systemic Corruption
3 src Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · James Inhofe · Dianne Feinstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley
3 src Morgan Stanley · Facebook · William Galvin · James Gorman | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-15 | Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic
2 src Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-01 | J.P. Morgan Creates Northern Securities: $400 Million Railroad Monopoly
3 src J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · Edward H. Harriman · Northern Securities Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1887-10-27 | Sugar Trust Formation: Henry Havemeyer Consolidates 75% of Sugar Refining
3 src Henry Osborne Havemeyer · Sugar Refineries Company · American Sugar Refining Company | confirmed | |
| 1885-07-01 | J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion
3 src J.P. Morgan · New York Central Railroad · Pennsylvania Railroad · Railroad Executives | confirmed | |
| 1872-02-17 | Cleveland Massacre - Rockefeller Consolidates Oil Refining Monopoly in Six Weeks
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler · South Improvement Company | confirmed | |
| 1869-09-24 | Black Friday - Gould and Fisk Gold Corner Attempt Triggers Financial Panic
3 src Jay Gould · James Fisk · President Ulysses S. Grant · Abel Corbin · +1 | confirmed |