What Constitutes Manipulation in the Commodity Markets? We’re Still Waiting for an Answer
The Commodity Exchange Act in broad terms prohibits the use of any manipulative or deceptive device or scheme in connection […]
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The SEC and the ICO
Some people are making real money investing in cryptocurrencies. Just this year, Bitcoin has gained 300%. Another cryptocurrency, Ethereum, is
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The Highs and Lows of Spoofing the Market
In the 1920s a group of investors, known as the Radio Pool, traded among themselves in the stock of Radio
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Blowing the Whistle on the Bank Got Easier
A series of “sensational congressional investigations” in the 1860s led to the disclosure that the United States had been bilked
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Rolling Back the Fiduciary Rule: A Primer on Making (and Unmaking) and Regulation
During the first weekend of the Trump Presidency, the President promised one of the ways he would stimulate growth in
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The CFTC (Still) Wants Your Intellectual Property
George E.P. Box, the internationally renowned mathematician and statistician, once said, “Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”1
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The NLRB and the Hedge Fund – Much Ado About Nothing?
Maybe you thought that employers whose employees are not organized in unions or which are not involved in traditional labor
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The SEC Approves the Investors Exchange Speed Bump – What Next?
The debate that engrossed observers of the equity markets over the application of the dark pool featured in Michael Lewis’s
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What’s So Great About FINRA Arbitration?
In response to what the United States Congress perceived as “judicial hostility” to arbitration, Congress passed the Federal Arbitration Act1
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Google and Fair Use
Fair use is a legal doctrine which permits limited use of copyrighted material without first acquiring permission from the holder