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" With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated. "

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" One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories. "

" Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one. "

" The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed. "

" Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling. "

" When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934. "

" When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy. "

" I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities. "

" George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life. "

" Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud. "

" The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices. "

" Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators. "

" Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money. "

" Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome. "

" India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history. "

" In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus. "

" I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. "

" Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators. "

" Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest. "

" Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct. "

" Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor. "

" There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you? "

" People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy. "

" No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders. "

" Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything. "

" I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all. "

" Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general. "

" With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal. "

" Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund. "

" The flip side of humiliation is pride. "