Gary Gensler, the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Commission, explains in the New York Times why consumers with interest rates in their contracts should care about the integrity of Libor–the London interbank offered rate–which is used as a benchmark average interest rate at which large international banks can borrow money.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/opinion/libor-naked-and-exposed.html?_r=1