Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders – buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions. Gary Weiss Read Quote
Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators. Gary Weiss Read Quote
In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks – a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus. Gary Weiss Read Quote
Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn’t know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund. Gary Weiss Read Quote
Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general. Gary Weiss Read Quote
Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans. Gary Weiss Read Quote
With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated. Gary Weiss Read Quote
People are told their rights when they’re arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy. Gary Weiss Read Quote
I’m not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn’t be insider-trading laws at all. Gary Weiss Read Quote
Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor. Gary Weiss Read Quote
