This digital document is an article from Atlantic Economic Journal, published by Atlantic Economic Society on March 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1150 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Byron Fisher: The Supply and Demand Paradox.(Trading Away Our Future )(Book review)Author: Thomas H. CatePublication: Atlantic Economic Journal (Magazine/Journal)Date: March 1, 2010Publisher: Atlantic Economic SocietyVolume: 38 Issue: 1 Page: 109(3)Article Type: Book reviewDistributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born, Mary Schapiro, Sheila C. Bair, Gary Gensler, Reuben Jeffery Iii, Wendy Lee Gramm, List of Commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Maureen Lally-Green, Gregory Mocek. Excerpt: Brooksley E. Born Brooksley E. Born is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, 1996 to June 1, 1999, was chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency which oversees the futures and commodity options markets . During her tenure on the CFTC, Born lobbied Congress and the President to give the CFTC oversight of off-exchange markets for derivatives in addition to its role with respect to exchange-traded derivatives, but her warnings were opposed by other regulators. Early life and education Born graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School (San Francisco, California) at the age of 16. She then attended Stanford University , where she majored in English and graduated with the class of 1961. She initially wanted to pursue a career in medicine. However, the guidance counseling service at Stanford opposed this, as it was their stated opinion that a woman who was interested in becoming a doctor, instead of the more suitable career of a nurse, was merely materialistic and had no sincere interest in healing. She then attended Stanford Law School , one of only seven women in her class. She was the first female student ever to be named president of the Stanford Law Review and is sometimes credited with having been the first woman in American history to hold the editorship of a major law review. She received the "Outstanding Senior" award and graduated at the top of her class in 1964. Legal career Immediately after law school Born was selected as a law clerk to judge Henry Edgerton of...
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, United States Commodity and Futures Case Law, United States Federal Commodity and Futures Legislation, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Brooksley Born, Mary Schapiro, Commodity Futures Trading Commission V. Schor, Sheila C. Bair, Gary Gensler, Reuben Jeffery Iii, Chicago Board of Trade V. United States, Onion Futures Act, Wendy Lee Gramm, Wallace V. Cutten, List of Commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Maureen Lally-Green, Hill V. Wallace, Gregory Mocek, Board of Trade of City of Chicago V. Olsen, Grain Futures Act, Anti-Gold Futures Act of 1864, Commodity Exchange Act, List of United States Supreme Court Cases on Commodity and Futures Regulation, Future Trading Act, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974, Cotton Futures Act, Cotton Futures Act of 1916. Excerpt: The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) is United States federal legislation that clarified most over-the-counter derivatives (OTC derivatives) transactions between sophisticated parties would not be regulated as futures under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) or as securities under the federal securities laws. Instead, the major dealers of those products (banks and securities firms) would continue to have their dealings in OTC derivatives supervised by their federal regulators under general safety and soundness standards. Functional regulation of derivatives products by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was rejected for continued entity-based supervision of OTC derivatives dealers. Before and after the CFMA, federal banking regulators imposed capital and other requirements on banks that entered into OTC derivatives. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and CFTC had li... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=485573
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This digital document is an article from Harvard International Review, published by Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. on June 22, 2008. The length of the article is 1531 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Debating trade reform: choosing a new direction for the global trade regime.(The New Global Trading Order: The Evolving State and Future of Trade)(Book review)Author: David DeesePublication: Harvard International Review (Magazine/Journal)Date: June 22, 2008Publisher: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc.Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Page: 86(2)Article Type: Book reviewDistributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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