Subject: Options and Futures Markets

• Up In Smoke

  Enron used political ties to rid itself of regulators. But in the end, its supposed free-market trailblazing only burned investors.

  February 7, 2002

• The Wendy Card

  April 6, 1995

• Wize Guys

  Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

  February 2, 2006

• Yep, Speculators Caused Last Year's Oil-Price Spike, Rice Says

  ​A couple of researchers at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy have released a study that gets close to proving that speculators caused oil prices to shoot up in 2008. This theory is nothing new, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the agency that regulates U.S. futures markets, is expected to release a report that details how speculators played a part in the price spike, the first time that the agency has admitted as much. According to the Baker Institute's Kenn

  August 31, 2009