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23 Jul 2019, 4:30 pm by Kevin LaCroix
., a bottle of opiates, a cache of credit card numbers or a thousand social security numbers? [read post]
16 Mar 2021, 5:45 am by Kevin Kaufman
In Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, the word excise was defined as “a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudged not by the common judges of property but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. [read post]
The five units will be as follows: The Asset Management Unit to focus on investment advisers, investment companies, hedge funds and private equity funds; The Market Abuse Unit to focus on large-scale market abuses and complex manipulation schemes by institutional traders, market professionals and others; The Structured and New Products Unit to focus on complex derivatives and financial products, such as credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and other securitized products;… [read post]
2 May 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
Congress in Dodd-Frank gave the SEC authority to shorten this deadline;[21] thus, we proposed to cut it in half to five days.[22] Lastly, after the 2008 crisis, Congress granted the SEC broad authority with regard to security-based swaps, including credit default swaps, which played a leading role in that crisis.[23] A critical part of Long-Term Capital Management’s risk-taking was in total return swaps, another form of security-based swaps. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 6:44 pm
In Japan's case, the same undervalued yen that supported exports sapped consumers' purchasing power while yields on their savings were kept artificially low to fund cheap loans to corporations and government. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 2:39 am
I think that Australia was very wary of a Chinese company coming in and taking over, essentially, one of their commodities. [read post]
23 May 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
Today, nearly 75 years later, the private fund industry has grown to $25 trillion[8] in gross asset value amongst tens of thousands of funds[9]—larger than the entire $23 trillion commercial banking sector.[10] Private fund advisers playan important role in each sector of the capital markets, whether it’s equities, treasuries, corporate bonds, mortgages, municipals, private credit, loan origination, or many other markets. [read post]
28 Mar 2013, 2:39 pm by Glenn
Yet data about consumer preferences and behavior is also a commodity. [read post]
24 Oct 2019, 2:40 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  Specifically, the SEC reinforced their cryptocurrency hardline by: Filing an enforcement action seeking an emergency temporary restraining order against Telegram Group and its wholly owned subsidiary Ton Issuer, Inc, halting their $1.7 billion ongoing digital token offering for its failure to register the offering with the SEC; Denying Bitwise Asset Management’s bid to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund, stating that the SEC was not convinced the “real bitcoin… [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 6:45 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Elaborates connections between participatory culture and deliberative democracy; the once thriving participatory culture of Enlightenment Europe evolved into a commodity culture—a narrative arc of a rise, a fall, and a comeback. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 7:44 am by Adam Thierer
First, however, Wu deserves credit for coming clean about just how radical his proposal is. [read post]
12 Mar 2023, 9:31 am by Dave Maass
Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent four Glomars; the U.S. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 12:07 am
Until about 11,000 years ago all humans were foragers, living by hunting, gathering, or fishing. [read post]
14 May 2023, 7:07 pm
 Pix Credit here The issue of national security has become an important element of the re-ordering of apex powers as they continue to decouple their economies and set up their own post-global imperiums. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 3:16 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Meanwhile, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have continued to serve as the payment mechanism of choice for unlawful transactions – from buying a fake I.D. or a bottle of opiates, to receiving a cache of credit card numbers or stolen identities, to collecting a ransomware payment demand or even for funding terrorist-related activities. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 7:35 am by Badrinath Srinivasan
The resulting conversion of procedural rules from publicly-created guarantors of procedural justice to privately-bargained commodities fundamentally alters our system of civil procedure. [read post]