The Dodd-Frank net might ensnare the family meal

Federal regulators recently roiled America's farmers with the release of new rules for financial instruments. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one of the agencies charged with implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, officially announced the new requirements and said they would take effect by year's end.

By Don Coursey, Ameritech Professor of PublicPolicy Studies at the Harris School of the University of Chicago.

November 16, 2012