The Federal Trade Commission appears to be preparing to consider a rule aimed at digital platforms that either invasively track their users or allow others to do so. The “Trade Regulation Rule on ...

Every minute the stock market is open, tens of thousands of transactions occur. Some of them happen when investors hit the buy or sell button. However, a majority of them happen automatically, through ...

On April 7, 2016, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a rule proposed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) that would require algorithmic trading developers to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies are on track to buy back a record amount of their own stock this year, but a decades-old markets rule aimed at preventing manipulation makes these trades easy to ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the nation’s chief civil rights enforcer for housing, charged with protecting the most vulnerable against housing discrimination. But a new proposed ...

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Backers of the proposals argue that all workers should be protected from management by automated systems and want companies to be more transparent about what they’re doing. Companies who employ “gig” ...

Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 51, No. 3 (October 2018), pp. 513-550 (38 pages) We characterize the class of committee scoring rules that satisfy the fixed-majority criterion. We argue that rules in ...