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Will We Ignore Brooksley Born Again?

Katherine Spillar | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Feminism, Brooksley Born, Derivatives, Msmagazine, Business News
Katherine Spillar

Will the U.S. Congress listen to the echoes of Brooksley Born's voice when they tackle forthcoming legislation to better regulate the over-the-counter derivatives market?

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Let Us Now Praise Uppity Women

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Wall Street, Commodities Futures Trading Commission Brooksley Born, Citibank, Banks, Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Brooksley Born, Citigroup, Regulation, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Regulation, Business News
Linda R. Monk, J.D.

Women like Brooksley Born have a long history of being whistle-blowers in systems dominated by men. Perhaps this time Congress -- and the American people -- will listen.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Congressional Committees Quietly Kill Portion Of Derivatives Bill; No One Watching For Systemic Risk

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: President, White House, Bankruptcy, Cftc, Derivatives, Bernanke, House Ag Committee, Federal Reserve, Regulation, Obama, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Legislation, Aig, Lehman Brothers, Tim Geithner, House Agriculture Committee, Treasury, Ben Bernanke, Bear Stearns, House Bill, Bill, Otc Derivatives, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

Two congressional committees in charge of drafting legislation to regulate derivatives have quietly killed a provision that would allow the Federal Re...

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Scott O'Malia: Obama Appoints Ex-Lobbyist For Enron-Like Company To Top Regulator Position

Mother Jones | David Corn and Daniel Schulman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Public Utilities Commision, Mirant, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Maria Cantwell, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, President Obama, Enron, Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee, Scott O'malia, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Politics News

During his confirmation hearing last year, Scott O'Malia, a Republican Senate aide nominated to be a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Com...

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Optiver Accused Of Oil Price Manipulation By CFTC

nytimes.com | LANDON THOMAS Jr. | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil Speculation, Optiver, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, High Frequency Trading, Business News

LONDON -- Its superfast, supersecret oil trading software was called the Hammer. And if the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is right, the name...

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Government Considers Limits On Energy Trading, Faults "Excessive" Speculation

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy Trading Limits, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, Energy Trading, Business News

WASHINGTON — With consumers hit by oil price swings, federal regulators may be moving toward imposing limits on speculative energy trading, whic...

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Oil Prices: Debate Over Speculators Intensifies

washingtonpost.com | Steven Mufson | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

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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Wall Street Fights Back Against Curbs On Oil Speculation

Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Commodities, Cftc, Rules About Speculation, Oil Speculation, Speculators, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business News

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will consider new measures to curb speculation in the markets for energy and other commodities, the agency is...

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Gensler Confirmed as Head of the CFTC - Will He Be Watching Oil Prices?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Gary Gensler, The Senate, Financial Crisis, Finanacial Times, Oil, Oil and Gas Prices, Green Energy, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Energy Policy, Manipulation, Seculation, Speculation, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Gensler will have to move away from the agency's "head in the sand" policy of recent years, while defending commodity futures trading against accusations of undue influence.

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New York Times Lulls Public into False Sense of Derivatives Security

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business

Read More: New York Times, Derivatives, Timothy Geithner, S.E.C., Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commodities-Futures-Modernization-Act-of-2000, Barney Frank, Business News
Michael B. Laskoff

Let's think of derivatives like plutonium and the financial system as a nuclear power plant. By all means, use the fuel but never, ever forget its awe-inspiring capacity to wreak destruction.

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Ryan Grim

White House, Sanders In Talks Over Controversial Nomination

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler, Bernie Sanders, Politics News

The White House and Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, are in talks to resolve differences surrounding a controversial nomination to the Comm...

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How Congress Rushed a Bill that Helped Bring the Economy to Its Knees

Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sunlight Foundation, Bailout, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Economy, Economic Crisis, Read the Bill, Phil Gramm, Larry Summers, Alan Greenspan, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born, Transparency, Politics News
Paul Blumenthal

If ever there was a case where Congress should have given more time and listened closer, this was it. Now, we're all paying for it.

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Oil Prices Were Manipulated, U.S. Government Commission Charges

Janet Ritz | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green

Read More: U.S. Economy, New York Mercantile Exchange, Crude Oil Prices, The Environmentalist, Commodity Prices, Heating Oil Prices, Green, Commodities Speculation, Green Business, Gasoline Futures, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business, Investigation, Cftc, Oil Price Manipulation Investigation, Corporate Crime, Politics, Gasoline Prices, Oil, Oil Prices, Optiver Holding, Green News
Janet Ritz

The agency charged with "ensuring the integrity of the futures & options market," has accused Optiver Holding of manipulating the prices of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline futures on the NY Mercantile Exchange.

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Senate Democrats Under Pressure To Lift Offshore Drilling Ban

Kate Sheppard | Posted 07.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, House of Representatives, Economy, Senate Democrats, Oil Prices, Oil, Harry Reid, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Kate Sheppard

Last week, some Democrats signaled that they would be willing to endorse offshore drilling. And on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he might allow voting on offshore drilling.

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Paulson's Plan In A Nutshell

New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Sec, Hank Paulson, Federal Watch, Private Equity Firms, Henry Paulson, Hedge Funds, S.E.C., Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Crisis, Business News

The NYT reports: The Bush administration on Monday rolled out the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression, presenting...

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