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By Extending Compliance Deadlines, is the SEC ‘Deregulating by Delay?’

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Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission delayed the compliance date for a handful of regulations. It’s happened often enough lately that it could appear to some that the agency is engaging in “deregulation by delay.” For example, t...

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Disclosures Reveal Companies’ Early Reactions to U.S. Tariff Policy

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The financial markets have had about a month to digest the impact of the federal government’s new tariffs on the outlook for the global economy. Meanwhile, individual companies have been sorting out what the new tariffs on goods imported fr...

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Five Ways White-Collar Enforcement Is Changing

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Since the transition to a new presidential administration in January, policies on trade and immigration have dominated the news. The administration’s approach to white-collar law enforcement isn’t generating the same buzz, but tangible and...

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Companies Scramble to Account for Impact of Tariffs

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Back in the 1980s, one of the more popular series of children’s books was called Choose Your Own Adventure. Rather than telling a linear story, the books essentially offered readers a chance to build their own narratives by choosing from di...

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Trump’s Turnaround on Tariffs Heightens Uncertainty for Companies

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Sometimes events come along to remind companies and the people who invest in them that the assumptions underpinning their plans are tenuous. In his 2003 book “A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market,” Temple University professor John Allen P...

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