…the Barron’s cover story […] The Commodity Exchange Act addresses excess speculation in commodity markets, and states that “the Commission shall…fix such limits on the amounts of trading which may…

…of the fact that the commodity markets are too small to absorb an excess of speculative dollars, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in conjunction with exchanges, imposes position limits on…

…used it aggressively, it may well have reinforced rather than allayed fears about the trading firm’s health. If other firms continued to refuse to deal with Bear, its collapse was…

…find a way to value its U.S. subprime bonds and other assets. CDOs aren’t bought and sold on exchanges and their trading has little transparency…. Bruce Bent, who in 1970…

…of support include: providing special training programs (90% support), providing tax incentives for companies to relocate to areas where workers have lost their jobs because of foreign imports (84%), allowing…

Currency Trading has included Angry Bear as one of the top 100 economic blogs overall, characterized as a left leaning economics category. (Hat tip to DolB for the link) Calculated…

…the WTO. But we haven’t done so yet, which means that eight American trading partners soon could retaliate against our unfair trade practices — a move that could start a…

…as some kind of sliding scale based on only the tangibles. Wine vs wool was it? We’re loosing the trade wars as a nation because we’re writing trading agreements to…

…by and large, the financial system subtracts. And, yet, it’s growing and growing and growing. And this short term thing where short term orientation in which trading pieces of paper…

…WTO sided with the Antiguans. The ramifications of that defeat are still rippling around the world, and major American trading partners such as the EU and Japan have begun lining…