This Week in Wall Street Reform
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AFR-CFA Comment Letter: Business Conduct Standards
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed business conduct rules for security-based swap dealers and major security-based participants that AFR and CFA have said will not be effective in ending abusive practices and do not do enough to bring transparency to this market. Of particular concern are serious shortcomings in the provisions designed to provide enhanced protections for special entities, such as municipalities and pension funds, shortcomings that all but guarantee the rules will not deliver the intended enhanced protections. In a comment letter filed with the SEC yesterday, AFR and CFA urged the agency to comprehensively revise the rules to address weaknesses in virtually every provision of the rules and make them at least as strong as those proposed earlier this year by the CFTC.
This Week in Wall Street Reform
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This Week in Wall Street Reform
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This Week in Wall Street Reform
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How Wall Street Speculation is Driving Up Gasoline Prices Today
Read a report here from the Political Economy Research Institute about speculation and rising gas prices. How Wall Street Speculation is Driving Up Gasoline Prices Today Robert Pollin and James Heintz Political Economy Research Institute University of Massachusetts, Amherst June 21, 2011 “The average retail