When Gary Gensler was named late last year to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (cftc), the financial industry may have thought him an ally. After all, he had been a partner at Goldman Sachs and later served under Bill Clinton's famously deregulatory Treasury secretary, Larry Summers. But a book that Mr Gensler coauthored in 2004 might have been a better guide to his predispositions. The cover of The Great Mutual Fund Trap shows a faceless banker playing a shell game. Inside, Mr Gensler warns investors that Wall Street is continuously trying to rip them off.
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