Under Roosevelt, Galbraith was in charge of implementing price controls in the US during WWII, to better control greed and gouging.

If I recall correctly, when each corporate executive met with them, crying foul, they signalled each other by wiggling two fingers in reference to ants. Wish I could remember the precise story, it was a hoot. We still use the gesture in this house to indicate someone expounding bullshit.

Doesn't seem to be any such thing directed at Haliburton et al now. Too bad.