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The Merchants of Wall Street: Banking, Commerce, and Commodities

The Merchants of Wall Street: Banking, Commerce, and Commodities – Saule T. Omarova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, November 24, 2012 Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 98, 2013 “This article examines the principal legal, policy, and theoretical implications of a transformative – but so far unrecognized – change in the banking… Continue Reading

DOJ Proposes Remedy to Address Apple’s Price Fixing

News release: “The Department of Justice and 33 State Attorneys General today submitted to the court a proposed remedy to address Apple Inc.’s illegal conduct, following the July 10, 2013, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decision finding that Apple conspired to fix the prices of e-books in the United States.  The… Continue Reading

Surveillance Order Reporting Act

CDT: “On the heels of the introduction of the “Surveillance Transparency Act” in the Senate, a bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives led by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has just introduced its own bill pressing for more transparency around government demands to Internet and telephone companies about their users data. As with the bill in… Continue Reading

NYT – Sarbanes-Oxley Changed Corporate America – Room for Debate

NYT Op: Room for Debate – with commentary by four contributors. Attorney Michael W. Peregrine states: “… the law has been spectacularly successful. Sarbanes-Oxley has forever changed the landscape of corporate governance. It has increased the accountability expectations we have of directors and officers, and their legal and accounting advisers as well.Sarbanes-Oxley seized the center… Continue Reading

WSJ – FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects

Law-Enforcement Officials Expand Use of Tools Such as Spyware as People Under Investigation ‘Go Dark,’ Evading Wiretaps: “The FBI develops some hacking tools internally and purchases others from the private sector. With such technology, the bureau can remotely activate the microphones in phones running Google Inc.’s Android software to record conversations, one former U.S. official said. It can… Continue Reading

Infographic – Student Debt on Borrowed Time

Shahien Nasiripour and Jan Diehm  – via Huffington Post: College students and their families are set to enjoy lower borrowing costs this fall at the expense of future borrowers under a measure approved by Congress and to be signed into law by President Barack Obama. The proposal overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday with nearly 400 votes.… Continue Reading

BLS – July payroll employment increases; unemployment rate edges down

Employment Situation Summary, July 2013 “Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in retail trade, food services and drinking places, financial activities, and wholesale trade. Household Survey Data Both the number of unemployed persons,… Continue Reading