Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation
Author | : Jerry Markham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317466369 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317466365 |
Rating | : 4/5 (365 Downloads) |
Download or read book Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation written by Jerry Markham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2014. This book maps the issues and traces the U.S. government's efforts to properly regulate, monitor, and prevent financial speculation and price manipulation in various markets. It begins with the period from the late nineteenth century to the first congressional efforts at regulation in the 1930s and continues on to the present, with a full chapter on the legal and financial aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The book also discusses the difficulty of initiating successful prosecutions of financial fraud and price manipulation and proposes a new approach to preventing manipulative practices.