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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zamboz who wrote (17850)	2/21/2009 12:17:13 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71463

I'd be curious to hear what ideas you have as far as regulating derivatives. To me it appears it would be a cat and mouse game, because derivatives can be tailored in many different ways. Once a law is passed to prevent a certain structure the creative people in the financial industry will just design the derivatives with a different structure, and so on and so forth. The mutability of derivatives is a major problem. Personally I think the only real solution is to let bad actors fail. Then the industry would self regulate. But unfortunately there seems to be no willingness to do that on the part of our bought and paid for politicians. Considering that, I think any legislation will end up being showbottle, and easily circumvented.