The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, better known as FINRA, imposes a suitability requirement on its members. Rule 2111(a) requires, in part, that a broker-dealer or registered representative ...

Yesterday’s post addressed the use of litotes in California’s broker-dealer suitability rule. Litotes can be an effective rhetorical device, but as Judge Frank H. Easterbrook observed, it is also ...

I have been practising my litotes. You never know when the skill will come in handy, and it's easier than Pilates. You just need to say that a movie was not bad, or the spa was not unpleasant, or the ...

Example - " saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes" ...

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