Bart Chilton

President Obama Speaks and the Oil Speculators React

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Politics, Cnbc, President Obama, Oil Speculation, Natural Gas, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Bart Chilton, Commodity Exchanges, Leon Hess, Algorithmic Trading, CME Group, Citigroup, Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Natural gas, as traded today on U.S. exchanges, is a uniquely isolated American commodity and any attempt at influencing its price, overt or otherwise, would fall under the purview of the nation's anti-trust laws and its stated prohibitions to all manner of collusion.

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LIVE Q&A: Key Federal Regulator Explains Brutal Swings In Gas Prices

Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Gas, Video, Gasoline, Bart Chilton Cftc, Wall Street, Bart Chilton, Oil Prices, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gas Prices Bart Childton, Hplive, Cftc, Politics News

Gas prices have been climbing this year, putting the pinch on pocketbooks around the country and prompting a host of campaign promises from politician...

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Why Regulators Say They're 'Paralyzed'

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Video, Wall Street, Bart Chilton, Litigation, Reuters, Dodd-Frank Financial Reform, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Regulation, Lawsuit, Business News

By Christopher Doering WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - Some U.S. regulators are "paralyzed" by the threat of lawsuits from Wall Street...

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Gold and Silver Price Manipulation

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Judge Painter, Silver, Price Manipulation, Gold, Bart Chilton, Cftc, Judge Levine, Video, Business News
Janet Tavakoli

The following chart reflects my own view of conditions that are historically good and bad for gold. Central banks' money printing on an unprecedented scale also makes the case for gold as a currency alternative.

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Zach Carter

Gambling On Hunger

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Food Riots, Tunisia, Derivatives, Budget, Speculation, Swaps, David Kane, Commodities Bubble, Federal Reserve, Obama, Cr, The Fed, Cftc, Maryknolls, Hunger, Blanche Lincoln, Wall Street, Egypt, Bart Chilton, Oil Prices, Galbraith, Food, Mubarak, Sec, Food Prices, Position Limits, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Since July, the price of corn has jumped 62 percent. Wheat has climbed by two-thirds, and soybeans are 38 percent more expensive. For ma...

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Time to Dismiss the CFTC Chairman and His Commissioners

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dodd-Frank Act, Treasury Department, Politics, Sempra Holdings, Congress, Oil, Bart Chilton, Jill Sommer, Vitol Group, Goldman Sachs, Robert Rubin, Michael Dunn, Wall Street, Gary-Gensler-Chairman-Cftc, Scott O'Dalia, Department of Energy, Financial Fix, CFTC Commisioners, Washington-Speak, President Obama, Yogi Berra, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The Dodd-Frank Act gave the CFTC until January 2011 to set limits to curb excessive speculation in the energy markets. Lo and behold, Chairman Gensler told lawmakers the CFTC wouldn't meet the deadline "because it doesn't yet have sufficient data."

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Oil Prices: Debate Over Speculators Intensifies

washingtonpost.com | Steven Mufson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bart Chilton, Opec, Derivatives, Oil Prices, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Cftc, Business News

The run-up in oil prices that began earlier this year was not as steep as last summer's record climb, but it was almost as mystifying. ...

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