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  • Derivatives, Dark Liquidity, And Increasing Systematic Risk - - Protection & Profit Potential

    03/10/2008 9:05:22 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 20 replies · 921+ views
    Gold Seek ^ | 02/29/08
    Derivatives, Dark Liquidity, And Increasing Systematic Risk - - Protection & Profit Potential “Charlie and I are of one mind in how we feel about derivatives and the trading activities that go with them: we view them as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.” “…The derivatives genie is now well out of the bottle, and these instruments will almost certainly multiply in variety and number until some event makes their toxicity clear…” “…In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.”...