Three ways the government regulates financial systems

1. The Federal Government regulates how information may be used to buy and sell securities. The SEC has rules around insider trading, so that if you have inside knowledge you can't profit off of it.

2. Deposit Insurance: The FDIC requires a certain amount of cash reserves to ensure that checking accounts will always be protected

3. Commodity Future Trading Commission regulates the commodity market in ways to ensure that the commodities markets are not manipulated and investigates and prosecutes people abusing the system.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.