Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Manipulation: Some History -- 1:1 Manipulation: A Primer -- 1:2 Ancient History -- 1:3 Manipulation Arrives in America -- 1:4 Commodity Futures Markets -- 1:5 Manipulation Enters the Twentieth Century -- 1:6 Governmental Reponses to Manipulation -- 1:7 Speculation Continues -- 1:8 The Federal Trade Commission Report -- 1:9 The Futures Trading Act of 1921 -- 1:10 The Grain Futures Act of 1922 -- 1:11 The Law of Stock Market Manipulation -- 2. Market Manipulation and the New Deal Legislation -- 2:1 The Grain Futures Act -- 2:2 The Roaring Twenties -- 2:3 The New Deal -- 2:4 The Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 -- 2:5 Implementing the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 -- 2:6 Implementing the Commodity Exchange Act -- 2:7 World War II and the Commodity Markets -- 3. Postwar Manipulation and Speculation -- 3:1 The SEC Adopts Rule 10b-5 -- 3:2 Postwar Speculation -- 3:3 Postwar Commodity Manipulation Cases -- 3:4 The Korean War and Commodity Price Concerns -- 3:5 The Stock Market Boom: The 1950s -- 3:6 More CEA Manipulation Cases -- 3:7 SEC Manipulation Cases: The 1960s -- 3:8 CEA Manipulation Cases: The 1960s -- 4. Manipulation of Commodity Prices in a Time of Inflation -- 4:1 Crude Oil Price Concerns -- 4:2 The Commodity Exchange Authority Falters -- 4:3 The Potato Default -- 4:4 Coffee Emergency -- 4:5 Speculative Limits and the Soybean Affair -- 4:6 The March 1979 Wheat Emergency -- 4:7 Feeder Cattle -- 4:8 The Silver Crisis -- 4:9 The CFTC Defines Manipulation -- 4:10 Energy Futures Arrive -- 4:11 Other Rigged Trading Issues -- 4:12 The Orange Juice "Attempted Manipulation" -- 4:13 The Ferruzzi Affair -- 4:14 The Sumitomo Affair -- 4:15 Academic Views -- 5. Manipulation Setbacks Under the Federal Securities Laws.

5:1 Rule 10b-5 Under Attack -- 5:2 The Birnbaum Doctrine -- 5:3 The Scienter Requirement -- 5:4 Manipulation as Fraud -- 5:5 The Materiality Requirement -- 5:6 The Reliance Element -- 5:7 Causation Elements -- 5:8 Secondary Liability -- 5:9 Extraterritorial Limitations -- 5:10 Insider Trading Limitations -- 5:11 Derivative and Stock Market Manipulation Concerns -- 5:12 Treasury Securities Manipulation Concerns -- 5:13 Pump-and-Dump Schemes -- 5:14 The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 -- 5:15 More Definitional Problems -- 6. The Battle Over OTC Derivatives -- 6:1 The Swaps and OTC Derivatives Markets Are Born -- 6:2 The CFMA and the Enron Loophole -- 6:3 The CFTC Shifts Strategies -- 6:4 The Justice Department Intervenes -- 6:5 The BP Case -- 6:6 False Reports to Exchanges -- 6:7 Rigged Trade Manipulations and Section 4(c) -- 6:8 FERC Enters the Manipulation Arena -- 6:9 The Federal Trade Commission Enters the Manipulation Arena -- 6: 10 Closing the Enron Loophole -- 7. The Dodd-Frank Act -- 7:1 The Credit Default Swaps Market -- 7:2 The SEC's Antimanipulation Role After Dodd-Frank -- 7:3 High-Frequency Trading -- 7:4 New CFTC Antimanipulation Powers Under Dodd-Frank -- 7:5 "Spoofing" -- 7:6 The CFTC Becomes an Antispeculation Agency -- 7:7 Margin Requirements and Manipulation -- 7:8 Position Limits -- 7:9 Short Selling and Other Trading Restrictions -- 7:10 Proprietary Trading and the Volcker Rule -- 7:11 Oil Prices Again -- 8. Challenges for the New Manipulation Standards -- 8:1 Statutory Interpretation of Borrowed Language -- 8:2 The Scienter Issue -- 8:3 The Open-Market Versus Closed-Market Debate -- 8:4 Artificial Price and Attempted Manipulation -- 8:5 Manipulation by False Reports -- 8:6 Minimanipulations -- 8:7 Surveillance by Computers -- 8:8 Populism Does Not Make for Effective Regulation -- 8:9 Conclusion -- Index.

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