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 Corporation of America, the...
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 by war...
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 the economy was to...
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...
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 activities...
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 Flash Boys: A...
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...
Google and Fair Use
Fair use is a legal doctrine which permits limited use of copyrighted material without first acquiring permission from the holder of the...
Are Non-Competes a Good Idea? Depends On Whom You Talk To
In the most recent season finale of HBO’s Silicon Valley, the lead character, Richard Hendricks, appeared to be on the verge of losing...
Adventures in the Fourth Branch of Government
Robert Jackson, a Supreme Court Justice and the lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, once said that the rise of...
