Business Quote by Alan Greenspan

What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those…

— Alan Greenspan

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…

— Alan Greenspan

I am not really inclined to think there is any very effective regulation of the derivative securities markets that would be useful. People who…

— Kenneth Arrow

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

— Jeremy Grantham

We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure,…

— Henry Paulson

Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

— Ha-Joon Chang

People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.

— Fred Ehrsam

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.

— Gary Shilling

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

— Adam McKay

There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles,…

— Kenneth Arrow

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to…

— Ben Bernanke

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a…

— Henry Paulson