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| DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: THE CFTC NEEDS A PERMANENT CHAIRMAN, NOT AN ACTING ONE |
Dear Mr. President,
Almost 100 years ago President Calvin Coolidge said, “The business of (the United States of) America is business.” The first business from before our nation’s founding that drove its development and rapid expansion was the cotton business. Cotton was the commodity that created international trade from the eighth century onward. To understand the cotton business and many origins of issues we still struggle with today, including race relations, I recommend you read the book “Empire of Cotton” by Sven Beckert.
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| JOHN WALLS – THE PATH TO ELECTRONIC TRADING |
John Walls is an executive with ADM Investor Services, but he started in the industry like many others of his generation as a trading floor messenger or runner. As a runner on the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange trading floor working for Shatkin Trading, Walls took advantage of nearly every opportunity he was presented with to learn all the different aspects of the markets and futures industry.
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| | | NAMES FOR CONSIDERATION AS CHAIR OF THE CFTC |
I have written a letter to the President of the United States about the need for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have a permanent chair named and confirmed. I have suggested that Rostin Behnam, the current acting chairman of the CFTC, should become the permanent chair of the Commission.
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| | | DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: THE CFTC NEEDS A PERMANENT CHAIRMAN, NOT AN ACTING ONE |
Because of the importance of cotton to our nation’s beginnings and all the other commodities it residually drove the production of, the U.S. commodity and related derivatives markets are among the most important in the world. I am writing to you today to urge you to appoint a permanent chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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| | | THE SPREAD – JULY 2, 2021 |
Finra socks Robinhood with its biggest-ever fine; Cboe acquires Chi-X Asia Pacific; OCC reports another volume gain; NIO takes its cue from options; John Lothian weighs in with his take; Looking for volatility; and Jermal Chandler explains hedging in the options “Term of the Week.”
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