Assets Quote by Michael Hudson

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

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

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

— Warren Buffett

Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.

— Walter Schloss

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

— Warren Buffett

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

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

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

— Myron Scholes

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

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

— James Rickards