Michael Fitzpatrick: “I believe one of the most effective tools we have to counter these groups is through undermining the funding for those…”

How is it the rating agencies get to pick and choose what debt they are going to rate and what debt they are not going to rate, especially when it affects small investors in the United States of America?

Government is too big; government is too opaque; and government is increasingly unaccountable to Congress.

I care deeply about the retail investor and the low- and moderate-income investor.

Criminal enterprises have relied on this method of illicit financing for years. However, many believe that this is an emerging technique now being used by terrorist groups to finance their violent and oppressive operations.