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By Philip McBride Johnson |
June 24, 2011
It's not easy being a regulator these days, especially in the foamy wake of the Dodd-Frank Act's tsunami crashing ashore at the Commodity Futures Trading ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
April 25, 2011
First, let's be thankful it exists (the human spirit thing that is). Many of our greatest inventions and cures arose from a refusal to say ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
March 25, 2011
A prominent criticism of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) swaps rulemaking as commanded by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
March 8, 2011
Talk abounds about releasing crude oil from the Government's strategic oil reserves to provide motorists some relief at the gas pump.Never mind that the Middle ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
March 1, 2011
It is hardly a secret that the Republican Party has assumed control of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress, with a boatload of ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
February 22, 2011
My, the editorials abound these days about the wacko Dodd-Frank Act and how it will bring ruin to all of us. Now we "learn" that ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
February 16, 2011
Highly-respected media have given prominent lament about how central clearing of derivatives transactions could make those entities "too big to fail" and someday prompt a ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
February 15, 2011
Congress has codified in the Dodd-Frank Act the argument by America's Fortune 500 that they cannot "afford" to comply with exchange/clearing margins. Such a regime, ...
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
August 12, 2009
Former CFTC head and a prominent architect of the formation of the CFTC explains the difference between equity and futures markets in this fictional regulation course.
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By Philip McBride Johnson |
August 12, 2008
Mr. JOHNSON (for himself, Mr. H. SIMPSON, Mrs. M. SIMPSON, Ms. L. SIMPSON, and Mr. B. SIMPSON) , all of Springfield, introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the recycle
