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Bart Chilton: “Regulators Were Asleep at The Wheel”

Posted by Larry Doyle on May 5th, 2014 9:18 AM |

It is not often when a regulator effectively turns on his own. I did a double take this morning while watching an interview on Bloomberg Surveillance when Bart Chilton, former commissioner at the CFTC, did just that.

This 4-minute clip also addresses the following: the perception of liquidity in the marketplace; Bloomberg’s Adam Johnson misconstrues some activity of high frequency traders during the Flash Crash as beneficial; the captains of finance operating in an irresponsible fashion.

The highlight of this clip, however, comes at the 2-minute mark when Chilton exposes his regulatory brethren while also alluding to the fact that some regulators were trying to do the right thing. One can only assume the powers that be must have silenced those who were not willing to bow down.

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Wall Street Proctology: Morgan Stanley Doctors Are In

Posted by Larry Doyle on October 10th, 2013 9:02 AM |

With interest rates at artificially low levels (thanks to the Fed’s quantitative easing program) and investors increasingly leery of navigating into the shark infested waters of the high-frequency dominated equity markets, what is an investor to do?

More and more investors have been sold on the idea of allocating more capital to alternative investments. One needs to be exceptionally careful when engaging the practitioners engaged in these pursuits. Really? Oh yes.

In what might best be compared to a visit to an unlicensed proctologist, Bloomberg provides a wide angled view into the incredibly expensive and dark world of managed futures as practiced by the “doctors” at Morgan Stanley. (Caution: the mental images here may be upsetting) (more…)






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