In World War II, Germany pioneered a revolutionary tactic to spearhead an attack at a specific point in the enemy lines to overwhelm their defenses and create chaos. Donald Trump is taking the lessons of those battles and performing his own blitzkrieg as he re-enters office for a second term. Unlike his first term, in […]

When Stanley Angrist wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal on September 5, 1989, he did not anticipate anywhere close to the response that he received. He relates, “Of the 350 or so articles I published in the Journal, none produced more mail or phone calls than the one on Rich Dennis. [There was no email.] […]

Innovation is a key differentiator between traditional markets and futures markets. Exchanges, FCM, and industry personnel try to predict not only prices going forward but how people will trade in the decades to come. The CME, CBOE, and others demonstrate their desire to develop new ideas every year. Adding new contracts to include developing commodities, […]