The events of May 6 triggered an investigation as to whether the feverish sell-off stemmed from a computer glitch or market manipulation.
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Looking to take advantage of the bull market of the late 1990s, Orfalea and his partners took stock in the new company with the expectation that it would go public in that feverishmarket for new issues.
In today's feverish atmosphere, even business executives and free-market economists, academics and politicos have lost sight of the need to preserve this utterly critical instrument.