(A science-fiction movie is like a board game that discloses its rules in the playing).
The C.F.T.C. is disclosing its rules piecemeal, but early proposals are likely to give an indication of the regulators' intentions as the process unfolds, said Michael Loesch, senior counsel and energy specialist at Fulbright & Jaworski and a former C.F.T.C. chief of staff.
In 2009, Verheyden-Hilliard had to sue the police department just to get it to disclose its own rules -- known as the general orders -- for how its officers are supposed to interact with citizens.
How well does your credit union disclose its checking account rules and fees?
The Rubio-allied group, which reported raising almost $16m in the first half of 2015, isn't required to publicly disclose its donors under IRS rules.
Although the Supreme Court has not disclosed its internal rules for acting on habeas corpus petitions, and did not do so today, the court evidently regards five votes rather than four as necessary to grant such a petition.
The groups — one of which, under campaign finance rules, must disclose its donors while the other does not — spent $9.5 million together over the last week, more even than the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in that period.
Its name is never revealed and its rules never disclosed, but the psychological weight of this game resonates clearly and thoroughly through the works.
What they tell us is that we have an e-commerce empire that makes their own rules, does not disclose the rules, suspends sellers without notice, bans people for life, and continues to grow at an astonishing rate.
It will be interesting to see whether the S.E.C. does anything to enforce its rules that companies disclose federal assistance in financial filings, either in the recent past or in the future.
