Trading In The Dark, The World Bank's New Leader, Apple's Woes And More

Monday, April 16, 2012 SEC Fails To Regulate High-Frequency Trading The Securities and Exchange Commission does not currently have the ability to fully monitor what, by most accounts, makes up a majority of the stock trading activity in the United States, according to former SEC lawyers. What's more, recent reforms and proposals are unlikely to make much of a difference, they say. The SEC, the primary federal agency charged with overseeing the U.S. stock market, has launched new efforts to more closely monitor high-frequency trading -- the ultrafast, computerized buying and selling of stocks, bonds and derivatives that now comprise the majority of stock trading in the country. This has increasingly come to replace the loud trading-room floor haggling that many Americans still associate with Wall Street. Struggling Apple Pulls Nasdaq Down With It With Health Reform, More Workers May Give Up Insurance For Raises World Bank Taps Obama Nominee As New Leader U.S. Has Highest Share Working In Low-Wage Jobs, OECD Says Report: Many More Teens Dying From Prescription Drug Abuse BLOG POSTS Dylan Ratigan: Is the Federal Reserve Coming Clean? Since the Fed wants to turn over a new leaf, why not ask for the transcripts of the meetings from 2007-2010? Let's just accelerate the timetable, and let everyone know what really went down at those meetings during the crisis of 2007 and 2008. And we got them. And we'll show you just what we got. Bill Moyers: The Rich Are Different From You and Me -- They Pay Lower Taxes Corporate taxes today are at a 40-year-low -- even as the executive suites at big corporations have become throne rooms where the crown jewels wind up in the personal vault of the CEO. Ted Kaufman: Ominous Rumblings on Stock Exchanges We must insist on more transparency and a return to markets that are fair to all investors. The tremors keep happening. We can't afford to wait until after the next catastrophic eruption. Robert Reich: Why a Fair Economy Is Not Incompatible With Growth But Essential to It What we should have learned over the last half century is that growth doesn't trickle down from the top. It percolates upward from working people who are adequately educated, healthy, sufficiently rewarded, and who feel they have a fair chance to make it in America. Elizabeth Parisian: Time for a 99 Percent Tax Revolt For the 99 percent of Americans who don't use lobbyists to bend the tax rules, Tax Day is a day for reflecting on why we pay taxes.

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