Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation
Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation

Author: Jerry Markham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 1317466365

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First Published in 2014. This book maps the issues and traces the U.S. government's efforts to properly regulate, monitor, and prevent financial speculation and price manipulation in various markets. It begins with the period from the late nineteenth century to the first congressional efforts at regulation in the 1930s and continues on to the present, with a full chapter on the legal and financial aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The book also discusses the difficulty of initiating successful prosecutions of financial fraud and price manipulation and proposes a new approach to preventing manipulative practices.

The History of Commodity Futures Trading and Its Regulation
The History of Commodity Futures Trading and Its Regulation

Author: Jerry Markham

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This book analyzes the impact of regulation on today's commodity futures trading market by examining the development and growth of both. It addresses the development of regulatory efforts and examines the regulated futures exchange, discusses the creation and development of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and focuses on the types of commodity interests that are traded and their regulation. Commodity interests include leverage contracts, commodity futures contracts and options, and foreign contracts. Including an examination of the problems faced by the government in its regulatory efforts, this important new work is an accessible and authoritative guide for anyone involved in the commodity futures market, including banks, businesses, speculators, and regulators.