CFTC Boss Says Bets Risk Becoming `Assassination Market'
By BloombergMichael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, says political contracts on federally regulated exchanges should be tied to specific events and not open-ended. The risk is that these bets could become an ``assassination market,'' he tells Bloomberg's Tim Stenovec in Boca Raton, Florida.
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