…From now on, laws that apply to the private sector must apply to Congress, including whistleblower, conflict-of-interest and insider-trading laws. Trading on nonpublic government information should be illegal both for…

…website notes: Congress created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 1974 as an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the United States….

…major trading partners. And by extension, Germany’s standard of living must also have suffer compared to its trading partners. From what I can see, only relative wages have been surpressed….

…Chretien/Martin austerity programs: 1. High growth in the US, Canada’s largest trading partner, a sharply declining Canadian dollar (which fell as low as .62 cents against the greenback), and the…

…I have to Brad’s analysis in general. He is explaining the market price but not explaining trading volume. Trading volume in MBS based CDOs is very very low (markets have…

…own the underlying bonds. Banning naked CDS would kill the liquidity that has made the CDS market so useful. Without speculators providing liquidity by trading naked CDS, legitimate hedgers would…

…imagine liquidity is very closely correlated with trading volume. That doesn’t mean that high trading volume will cause a large increase in asset prices. It certainly doesn’t mean that innovation…

…correlation between high valuations and future returns. That may create a particular problem for those investing in emerging markets at the moment. According to Mr Montier, emerging markets are trading…

…natural candidate to support an open world trading and financial system…” We benefit, but we are “ambivalent”. “An open trading system tempts every country to pursue strategic trade policies that…

…the RMB in the inter-bank foreign exchange market after the closing of the market on each working day, and will make it the central parity for the trading against the…