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Hate derivatives? How can you like cap-and-trade?

05/10/2010
By Bob Tippee
Political gyrations over financial and energy reform camouflage a wicked hypocrisy.Financial reform legislation in the Senate treats derivatives as demonic. Derivatives are tradable financial instruments linked to physical commodities. Some are traded on centralized exchanges subject to regulation, others less formally in a hazy realm known as "over the counter" (OTC).OTC derivatives receive much of the blame for the financial system's unraveling in 2008. Reform legislation would require that many derivatives now traded OTC instead be traded on regulated exchanges.Attention to derivatives, with the purpose of tightening regulation of them, no doubt is in order. But the pressure ...
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