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Actually that has shown not to be true over and over throughout the history of the derivatives trading market. Nominally and in a perfect world that would be tr
by ItendToDisagree 13y ago
Actually that has shown not to be true over and over throughout the history of the derivatives trading market. Nominally and in a perfect world that would be true. But as we have seen that is not the functional reality. It keeps happening that derivatives are used to hide risk rather than actually predict or insulate against it. To quote a famous politician:
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.'"
And to quote a head of a self-regulatory body in charge of such things:
In the context of a 2010 examination of the ICE Trust, an industry self-regulatory body, Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission which regulates most derivatives, was quoted saying that the derivatives marketplace as it functions now "adds up to higher costs to all Americans."