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2022 Kazakh unrest
series of protests in Kazakhstan that began on 2 January 2022 after an LPG price increase
2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war
2020 oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia
2013 protests in Brazil
2013 protests in Brazil
GameStop short squeeze
short squeeze of GameStop stock and many other assets in 2021
price fixing
agreement over prices between participants on the same side in a market
Martin Shkreli
American businessman and convicted felon
predatory pricing
Undercutting to eliminate competition
Epinephrine autoinjector
Pharmaceutical product used as an emergency treatment for anaphylaxis
The Cost of Knowledge
Protest movement against research publishing house Elsevier and for open science
2011 Israeli social justice protests
protest against high housing prices in Israel
Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion
1986 hijacking of HBO by American businessman Captain Midnight
SunTour
SR Suntour (stylized as SR SUNTOUR) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of bicycle components, formed in 1988 when Osaka based SunTour (Maeda) went bankrupt and was purchased by Sakae Ringyo Company (abbreviated S.R.), a major Japanese maker of aluminum parts, particularly cranks and seat posts. SunTour's sales and commercial success peaked from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.
ripoff
A ripoff (or rip-off) is a grossly unfavorable financial transaction. It originated as slang and has entered into standard English usage as a business term.