Bit of a joker aren't you - give it to women with big breasts...
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yawn i have risen to the bait, i asked a question, you ignored it & deflected attention away from your wildly innaccurate statements by then asking me a few.......therefore i am in the wrong,
i feel sorry for whoever has to deal with your poor reasoning on a daily basis.
i thought you were joking (lol) re your questions, they were so poor, anyway.....
"How would it stop global economy from functioning?" banning derivs? do you seriosly not know the answer to this, crikes. one example.....most large flows of fx (so this includes any business, bank, investment vehicle and the like which operates in >1 country (its a globalised economy we live in btw) with diff ccy's wld be hedging their ccy expsure in derivs mkts, & if they didnt exist this wld severely restrict their scope to foreign mkts etc (not saying we shld be so globalised, but we are). thats just ccy risk, there is interest rate risk, mkt risk (another example?....farmers have been hedging against global price fluctuations for hundreds of years in futures mkt), blah blah blah etc which can and are hedged in derivs mkts. read a book.
"Why are derivatives so highly leveraged?" dunno - perhaps a question for the regulators / gov'ts, doesnt mean they shld be banned though. you mentioned mortgage backed securities example which is interesting, cos these are as per the name suggests, underpinned by mortgages.....lent to households who were leveraged far too high i.e. incomes cldnt afford the repayments. these are not derivs, its securitised debt, bundled into derivs. stop the loose credit facilities (govts / regulators etc) and the MBAs wldnt have been around. we live in a consumer economy, we are encouraged to spend more than we earn, get into highly leveraged debt (mortgages), and buy the latest stuff - only way to continue this is to continue lines of credit, as soon as they freeze up (blackrock) we are ****ed. uk labour govt reduced unemployment by creating uselss middle m'ment jobs in public services to increase not only tax receipts, but the number of ppl who can spend more than they earn. the only feasible way out of this is to raise interest rates and admit this model doesnt work and take a huge hit, but will the big businesses let the gov'ts do this? no way. this has sweet fa to do with derivs, or employment contracts, or whatever mumbo jumbo pops into your head and you decide to regurgitate for the detriment of everyone reading this thread. in fact it cldnt be further from it. though in other posts you seem quite measured, weird.
"How does this help the global economy? What useful function does it serve?" see first answer.
Not sure if you actually make money trading derivs, but if you do perhaps you shld show the industry some respect and learn a little about its history instead of spouting twaddle about short selling being the root of all evil. god, have you seen, theres been a lot of short selling in the global stock mkts recently, all those dastardly hedge funds & big greedy institutions playing silly buggers again. darn them. if only we cld stop them the world wld be a rosy place again.
you left a lol emoticon after repeating my 'joke', these are to represent your emotions at the time of writing (there is no sarcastic emoticon), so i am glad you appreciated it.
short selling and the pack mentality can destablise as we have seen
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Not saying it was the cause
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you confused?
cya.
Mr rsh01,
Here deal with this and knock your self out...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-short-sales-to-halt-rout-in-bank-shares.html
Nobody can say you are behind the curve can they. You really know your stuff. :cheesy:
Enjoy...