Major financial actors, using the instruments of speculative trade, have the ability to fiddle and rig market movements to their advantage. There is no such thing as a "Free Market". These tools of manipulation have become an integral part of the financial architecture; they are embedded in the system.

There are several instruments including futures, put options, index funds, derivatives, naked short selling, etc. used to make billions of dollars when the stock market crumbles.  The more it falls, the greater the gains. Those who make it fall are speculating on its decline."

The stock exchange has been transformed into a multi billion dollar Gambling Casino.