EditorialChairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rostin Behnam speaks during a Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hearing examining the risks and regulation of digital assets at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Wednesday, Febru
EditorialA healthcare worker unloads oxygen canisters, a precious commodity in India, at a New Delhi hospital on May 3, 2021. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
EditorialGary Gensler, former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in Cambridge, Mass., April 20, 2018. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)
EditorialNakagawaguchi (Mouth of Nakagawa River) from the Series One Hundred Views of Edo, Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 17971858, Woodblock print in colored ink on paper, This is a lively depiction of daily life on the traditional highway of Edo. In the foreground...
EditorialKnife, Bronze, iron, cast, chased, bronze, iron, Total: Height: 2,8 cm; Width: 15,9 cm; Width: 7 cm (handle), tools, ram (animal), animals as ornament, Early Imperial Period, Augustus, Tiberius, The knife made of iron with a wide blade, bulging at the ...
EditorialMaker: Edward Winslow, American, 16691753, Trencher?Salt, Silver, Height: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm), In the late seventeenth century, salts became fixtures on the tables of well-to-do colonists. Salts took two forms: tall standing salts with knops surrounding...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: commodity account, Ebabbar archive, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Date ca. 558 B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba), Babylonian, Clay, 2.12 x 1.37 x .73 in. (5.38 x 3.48 x 1.85 cm), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialCuneiform tablet: account of commodity disbursements to prebendaries, Ebabbar archive, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Date ca. 7th6th century B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba), Babylonian, Clay, 1.61 x 2.13 x .87 in. (4.1 x 5...
EditorialGary Gensler, who led the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Obama administration from 2009 to 2014, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., April 20, 2018. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)
EditorialGary Gensler, former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., April 20, 2018. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)
EditorialSukron, left, who trades in plastic trades, sits on a scale in Ciketing Udik, a village near the massive Bantar Gabang landfill, on March 2, 2020. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)