"unfettered" speculation. These laws were enacted by FDR when he realized how negatively this profiteering was hurting common people.
Unfortunately, under Bush II, these laws were "set aside" for many companies (like Goldman Sachs who currently compromise most of this administrations cabinet positions).
This unchecked speculation has affected gas, oil, food, anything that people need, so that these obscenely wealthy corporate "persons" and their "troops" can profit obscenely while destroying the lives of billions of people. Of course, with their "tax cuts" entrenched, they will continue to be masters of the universe while we die.
We need to follow Egypt's lead and demand an end to this needless suffering so these elites can can live beyond description.
We all share this world and to allow greed to destroy it and the majority of the people on it, is an insane "race to the bottom."

Walk like an Egyptian...