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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70574)10/11/2008 5:33:19 AM
From: Snowshoe4 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
Are you also against banking regulations? Traffic rules? Food and drug inspection? Building codes? Patent protection?



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70574)10/11/2008 9:13:50 AM
From: carranza25 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
Why should derivatives be regulated, other than the normal legal protection and enforcement of contracts and prosecution of theft and fraud?

For the same reason atomic weaponry, dynamite and C4 are regulated: the huge danger to large numbers of innocent bystanders when they explode.