I hate being a conspiracy theorist, but the government drives me to it, and lately government seems (hand-in-glove with corporations) to be driving a policy to get rid of unwanted burdens to our capitalist society.
In March 2008, The New York Times reported an inexplicable and disturbing variation between actual prices and commodity pricing in some commonly traded crops like corn, soybeans and wheat.
On April 9, 450 of the 500 employees at the Point Beach nuclear power plant - owned by FPL Energy of Florida and located in Two Rivers, Michigan - were evacuated because a store clerk misinterpreted a sound bite.