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Department of Justice Gets Touchy Over Corporate Enforcement Record

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In his 2020 book “Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World,” Canadian data scientist Vaclav Smil writes: “Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.” In other words, while hard data itself may be in...

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Judge's Gavel Sitting on American Dollar Bills: SEC using fines as deterrence

‘Deterrence’ is the SEC’s New Buzzword

Judge's Gavel Sitting on American Dollar Bills: SEC using fines as deterrence

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler has made enforcement a well-publicized priority of his tenure. A new point of emphasis, deterrence, has apparently spun off from those efforts to show the business world the financial co...

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