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CFTC Gets Derivatives Advice From Industry Insiders

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein And Ben Protess | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cantwell, Goldman Sachs, Lobbyists, Cftc, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, JP Morgan, Obama, Citigroup Global Markets, Federal Advisory Committee Act, White House, Euronext Liffe, Maria Cantwell, Financial Crisis, Government Accountability Office, Jill Sommers, Cme, Lobbying, Derivatives, Richard Berliand, Financial Reform, Joanne Medero, Arthur Hahn, Goldman, Barclays, Jill E. Sommers, Barack Obama, Gao, Derivatives Trading, Robert Klein, Bonnie Litt, Citigroup, Politics News

Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...

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Just How Corrupted Has American Medicine Become?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Neurontin, Big Pharma, New England Journal of Medicine, Medicine, Health, Drug Companies, Cme, Drug Sales, David Franklin, Pfizer, Fda Approval, Drug Marketing, Fda, Epilepsy Drugs, Drug Company Executives, Parke-Davis, Warner-Lambert, Doctors and Drug Companies, Business News
Bruce E. Levine

Drug-company corruption of American medicine is of course not news. What is news is that such corruption has become so egregious, so transparent, and so embarrassing.

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange To Run Credit Default Swaps Market

Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 12.21.2008 | Chicago

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Regulators expect to give the go-ahead to CME Group Inc. and rivals to clear contracts in the $47 trillion market for credit default swaps by the midd...

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Leads Credit Default Swaps Market Race

Reuters | Jonathan Spicer and Daisy Ku | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Selling Debt, CME Group Credit Default Swaps, Cme, Merc, CME Group CDS, Credit Default Swaps Market, Financial Crisis, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Credit Default Swaps, CME Group, Chicago News

The race for rights to set up a regulated and exchange-based market for credit default swaps is being led by CME Group , but the final decision will b...

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