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 with the...
The SEC's Unconstitutional Condition
As a condition of settling civil charges, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) normally permits those it sues to say in a...
The Future of Cryptocurrency Futures Regulation
Add the chairman of the largest electronic brokerage firm in the U.S. to the list of Cassandras warning us of the perils posed by the...
Crow & Cushing Featured in CTA Intelligence
CTA Intelligence (CTA): What factors informed your decision to form the partnership which became Crow and Cushing? Charles Crow (CC): In...
The SEC and the ICO
Some people are making real money investing in cryptocurrencies. Just this year, Bitcoin has gained 300%. Another cryptocurrency,...
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...
