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What We Have Found Over The Years In The Marketplace Is That Derivatives Have Been An Extraordinarily Useful Vehicle To Transfer Risk From Those Who Shouldn't Be Taking It To Those Who Are Willing To And Are Capable Of Doing So.

The Use Of A Growing Array Of Derivatives And The Related Application Of More-sophisticated Approaches To Measuring And Managing Risk Are Key Factors Underpinning The Greater Resilience Of Our Largest Financial Institutions... Derivatives Have Permitted The Unbundling Of Financial Risks.

Protectionism Will Do Little To Create Jobs And If Foreigners Retaliate, We Will Surely Lose Jobs.

Clearly, Sustained Low Inflation Implies Less Uncertainty About The Future, And Lower Risk Premiums Imply Higher Prices Of Stocks And Other Earning Assets. We Can See That In The Inverse Relationship Exhibited By Price/earnings Ratios And The Rate Of Inflation In The Past. But How Do We Know When Irrational Exuberance Has Unduly Escalated Asset Values, Which Then Become Subject To Unexpected And Prolonged Contractions As They Have In Japan Over The Past Decade?

The Free Lunch Has Still To Be Invented.