Judge Silberman ruled that under the Wickard precedent almost any activity could be deemed, through some extended chain of causation, to have an impact on interstate commerce and thus be fit for federal control.

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These are firms that sift through the extended chain of participants in an industry, looking for information that in isolation might be meaningless but assembled with other facts presents the next great trading opportunity.

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For example, what does an extended supply chain look like over time when people are tied together in a social platform?

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As a result, the extended supply chain now has many additional points of potential failure, suggesting that new approaches to risk management can be beneficial.

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In 1946, the Tote'm convenience-store chain extended its hours from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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When real estate investor David Lichtenstein pushed his Extended Stay hotel chain into bankruptcy court in 2009, the move triggered one of the biggest bad boy guarantees ever.

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In 1988 he founded Budget Suites of America, a chain of extended-stay hotels, essentially offering apartments for rent by the week.

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