When Is Market Manipulation Ever Justified?

Student Name Professor Name Course Date Article Reflection When is market manipulation ever justified? To say that market manipulation is acceptable or can be justified based on its ethical outcomes is absurd. Salomon Brothers violated laws of the government, exceeded thirty-five percent limit on the portion of a Treasury issue anyone can buy and used the names of its customers without their permission or authorization. The company had no right to commit these mistakes and was supposed to seek permission from its clients as well as the government. A person’s belief of what is right may not be actually beneficial for others, but it looks like Salomon Brothers had forgotten the ethics of doing business and made the wrong use of their rights. Manipulation is unethical and should never be used in the world of business and politics. The chances are that what Salomon Brothers considered beneficial was actually against ethical and moral values of the socie...