Just to play economic devil’s advocate, if you were casually monitoring the stock ticker for an issue that you owned and noted a 1.75% increase in your stock’s share price in 90 minutes, you would smile over your asset price appreciation resulting from market forces. If you sold it just then, you would realize a profit at someone else’s expense.

But that same percentage increase in someone eles’s asset value is “gouging” when the purchase transaction is at your expense?