They happen often on the multi-million dollar scale, rather than the billion dollar scale of the flash crash, but they are the same class of event: The error trade.
The club, named after Queen Victoria's German consort Prince Albert, was founded for Manchester's community of middle class Germans involved in the cotton trade.
Marketed under a variety of trade names, oxazepam belongs to a class of compounds widely used since the 1960s to treat panic attacks, anxiety and insomnia.
Just over 10 years ago, Einhorn first publicly unveiled his bearish thesis on Allied Capital, a trade that capitulated him into an elite class of hedge fund managers.
Edwards points to past administrations' free-trade policies as the cause of many problems for working class Americans.
Only last year the trade press and market-research firms were celebrating this class of software as a godsend.
Mr Clinton's big idea for the Democrats was to move from the left into the centre of politics, concentrate on the aspirations of the middle class, and cast off ties to special interests, especially trade unions.
Sodium pentothal, the trade name for thiopental, is the best-known of a class of barbiturates popularly supposed to act as truth serums.
The Maya also developed social class system which was a well-ordered and carried on trade throughout a network of cities that went as far south as Panama and as far north as Central Mexico.
OECD's indicator of product-market regulation (ie, the extent of state ownership, the red tape involved in setting up a business, and barriers to international trade and investment) again puts India at the bottom of the class.
We just released a report that shows nearly 90 percent of the construction, manufacturing and trade jobs created through investments in transportation projects are middle class jobs.
Subsidies, trade protections and other economic distortions accumulate, and resources increasingly flow to a specialised class of lawyers, bureaucrats and lobbyists who know how to work the system.
That threat to consumer privacy unleashed a storm of protest against the company, as well as a Federal Trade Commission investigation and a class-action lawsuit, which was settled only in 2002 when DoubleClick agreed to make user data anonymous.
Clinton and Obama frequently address issues that hit home for unions -- wages, protection of the right to form unions, health insurance, cutting taxes for the middle class and reworking trade agreements that some union members blame for job loss.
But for Toyota, for common sense, and for simple justice, the most egregious and outrageous lawsuits must be those solicited by class action lawyers to make Toyota compensate owners of Toyota vehicles who claim to have suffered losses on the trade-in or resale value of their cars due to the alleged quality issues and recalls in 2009-2010.
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