Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation

This book uniquely describes the long, and largely unsuccessful, governmental efforts in the United States to attack speculators in the stock and commodity markets through the anti-manipulation prohibitions and restrictions on speculative traders. The book addresses recent efforts in Congress to blame speculators as the cause of the high-energy prices that reached record levels in this century. This book describes the recent legislation that now gives several regulatory agencies (SEC, CFTC. FTC & FERC) over-lapping anti-manipulation authority that will face numerous obstacles in court.