The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was created in the depression era of the 1930s to restore the public’s trust in the securities markets after the stock market crash.
For the last more-than-70 years, there have been ebbs and flows in its work, recently highlighted by the corporate scandals of Enron, WorldCom and the mutual and hedge fund industries. While these scandals and others have left the investing public dismayed and generally distrustful of the securities markets, the SEC is often misunderstood and its role as the federal securities regulator has been called into question.
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