With the Dark Knight breaking box office records around the world it looks like the CFTC is trying to cash in on the caped crusader’s popularity. In a recent press release announcing the formation of a “forex fraud” taskforce the CFTC stated, “This announcement sends a clear signal that the CFTC is on the beat, and that our continued and increased cooperation with law enforcement authorities will help put these forex dealers where they belong – in jail.”
CFTC Announces Formation of Retail Foreign Currency Fraud Enforcement Task Force
Ya I know many of you are chuckling to yourselves, in classic Joker style, “ha, ha, ha, and I thought my jokes were bad.” Forex fraud has been rampant the last couple years and like the hapless gang at the Gotham police department the regulators can never seem to get the bad guys who remain safely tucked away like “Lau” from the Dark Knight hiding out in his Hong Kong skyscraper. Only in the retail forex world the villains sip margaritas on the Turks and Caicos Islands or are busy forging $35 million ABN-Amro bonds in Switzerland.
But maybe there is finally hope here in Gotham. Perhaps the Dark Regulator can save us from the scammers and con-men who are a blight on our wonderful forex world. Let’s hope the CFTC’s new task force scheme works out and that they are able to drive these agents of chaos in the retail forex market out of business once and for all. But then again the Jokers of the retail forex world have never been intimidated by schemes have they?
Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just, do things. The mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon's got plans. You know, they're schemers. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I'm not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how, pathetic, their attempts to control things really are.
So to the folks at CFTC, please, make sure this latest scheme doesn’t draw the kind of ridicule the Joker loves to heap on law enforcement…