Betting Quote by John Lanchester

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

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

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

— Warren Buffett

A derivative is a bet on whether a stock, or a bond or a real estate asset, is going to go up or down.…

— Michael Hudson

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

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

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

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

— Paul Singer

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have…

— 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

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

— James Rickards