Then it seems that "market manipulation" is so broad a term that many activities, essential to the daily operations of hedge funds, qualify for it. This would

Then it seems that "market manipulation" is so broad a term that many activities, essential to the daily operations of hedge funds, qualify for it. This would be fine by me: to just make whole sectors of these financial markets illegal, close some large exchanges and companies, in an effort to somehow limit their parasitism on the the real economy.