Dear Chairman Gensler, I Have Many Questions . . . (with Lofchie Comment)

"Dear Chairman Gensler, I have many questions . . . ," is the second series of questions posed by John Sodergreen, editor-in-chief of the Energy Metro Desk, which is addressed primarily to CFTC staffers. The questions request "down-in-the weeds details" that Metro Desk's readers might have regarding compliance with Dodd-Frank requirements "in the hopes that some CFTC staffer" will read them and respond "with some clarity on the subject." This week's edition includes questions relating to Client Chronic Fatigue Syndrome regarding proposed compliance deadlines, and ad hoc no-action actions by the CFTC to relieve that syndrome, as well as questions relating to whether the CFTC is contemplating measuring ex post whether all its rules will ever do any good in the real world.

Lofchie Comment: Many of the issues highlighted in the list of questions have since been put into even sharper focus by the CFTC's decision to delay the effective date of many of its regulations, raising the question of how productive it has been to establish a constant series of unreachable deadlines, each of which must be delayed in turn.

Click here to view the current list of questions.Click here to link to a related news article with a prior list of questions. The attached is an excerpt from the last issue of Energy Metro Desk, which is published bi-weekly by Scudder Publishing Group, an energy trade news publishing company based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Those interested in learning more about the Energy Metro Desk may do so by linking to www.energymetro.com or emailing [email protected].