Far Quote by Fred Ehrsam

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

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

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

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

— Warren Buffett

In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The…

— John Lanchester

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

— Matt Taibbi

What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including…

— Paul Singer

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

— James Rickards

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

The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative,…

— Felix Rohatyn

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

— Adam McKay

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

— Paul Singer