This is the kind of update, ooooh, don’t I just lurves me to be able to write.
You know – as opposed to ‘Starmer locked up another Granny’ or ‘Merz’s polizei raided another AfD supporter’s home’ or ‘car rams festival crowd in [insert European city]’.
This is a good one for all of us.
Remember back to last week when I told y’all about the work-from-home fraud that Caroline Pham, acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), had released a statement on?
The post was fun in itself because I got to use the Trading Places clip where Ackroyd and Murphy ruin the Dukes to explain what some of it is that the CFTC helps regulate.
When I first started writing that, there hadn’t been much information available about why ‘staff members’ had been put on leave, which naturally led to speculation about trading irregularities and that sort of thing. Later…