Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Under Trump, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Scales Back Enforcement, Worrying Farmers

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The fate of two cotton brokers highlights how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has scaled back its regulatory actions not just for crypto cases but also for the kinds of cases it has long policed.

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Trump administration officials said the U.S. has no plans to sell weapons to Beijing after Ambassador David Perdue told an interviewer that the president “at one point” offered to make a deal to transfer American arms to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Under Trump, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Scales Back Enforcement, Worrying Farmers

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