Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers Help Clean Up Our Markets

Honest investors in public markets—which one way or another refers to most Americans—expect the government to make sure traders and the very exchanges on which they trade are not breaking the rules to rip them off. Whether they know it or not, investors should also be thanking Dodd-Frank whistleblowers for playing a central role in policing both traders and exchanges.

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In this era of trading dominated by high-frequency trading strategies that most investors scarcely comprehend, the government can’t play sheriff alone. Many abuses by market participants and financial exchanges have been difficult for the government to detect.

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