Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset ...

Financial derivatives are financial instruments that are linked to a specific financial instrument or indicator or commodity, and through which specific financial risks can be traded in financial ...

29 September 2008 Despite their unpredictable nature, financial markets have become one of the most dynamic and popular investment arenas in the world today. The Economist, in "Mapping the Markets", ...

Demanding Diversity Through Uniformity“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama -- who mentioned them no ...

If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer? But the truth ...

Sociology, Vol. 48, No. 5, Special Issue: Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis (OCTOBER 2014), pp. 887-903 (17 pages) The period since the global financial crisis has seen financial derivatives ...

Perpetuals.com Ltd (NASDAQ:PDC) ("Perpetuals"), a provider of an AI-driven derivatives trading platform, today announced that ...

Derivatives, a special kind of investment, played a key role in the financial crisis and generated $20 billion for Wall Street last year. They are also central in President Obama's push for financial ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The problems of Good Derivatives begin with the title: the book does not discuss derivatives at length, nor is there a coherent thesis proposing ...

President Obama called Wednesday for more oversight of derivatives — the financial products that helped sink insurance giant AIG — when he met with Congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House ...