so we're hedging our bets here.

Investors, of course, are hedging their bets.

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Capitalist institutions include risk management schemes that provide insurance, hedging, and diversification.

They thus provide an important instrument for hedging price risks in commodity markets.

Nevertheless, the West appears to be hedging its bets by sustaining contacts with the opposition.

But, while such hedging is natural in world politics, modesty is important for both sides.

Individual derivatives and repo transactions are hardly nefarious.

These investors can, in turn, be encouraged when financial hedging devices and financial diversification protect them.

But it would be a mistake to focus only on the hedging part of American strategy.

But not all investors are able to trade derivatives.

The markets for other derivatives are not much better.

But an important disadvantage of derivatives is their short maturity.

Derivatives traded on exchanges should be registered as a class.

It had been created in an experiment with toluene derivatives.

Moyenne Guinée dairy products and derivatives, poultry, handicrafts, vegetables, etc.

And, if the problem is systemically risky derivatives trading in banks and elsewhere, then the priority given to derivatives traders over nearly every creditor ought to be curtailed.

Whereas guarding against uncertainty had traditionally been a moral issue, hedging against risk is a purely technical question.

Not so for the derivatives risks that jeopardized the global economy.

Regulators should insist that traded derivatives are homogenous, standardized, and transparent.

In part, this reflects political hedging by the MILF in the face of Manila s incapacity to make meaningful concessions.

Some derivatives, particularly credit default swaps should not be traded at all.

There are no peculiarly Western or Eastern mobile phones or financial derivatives.

Back in the early 1980 s, financial engineers invented portfolio insurance, a fancy active hedging strategy for controlling downside risk.

But currency values are driven by macroeconomic developments, and therefore FX does offer natural hedging opportunities in liquid and transparent markets.

Advanced economic systems have very complex webs of contracts, such as financial derivatives.

Unfortunately, when global stock markets crashed in October 1987, the insurance turned out to be useless, mainly because markets for hedging collapsed.

At the same time, oil hedging not only raises oil prices but results in huge reserves of cash in oil producing countries.

The calls to curb speculation in derivatives markets or short sales have this flavor.

We are rebuilding derivatives and related financial structures atop the same, still active faults.

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There has been a longstanding discussion about whether new derivative markets, which provide such financial hedging, tend to increase preexisting financial markets volatility.

Two waves of strikes in 1988 forced General Jaruzelski s government to negotiate with Solidarity, which, after a few months of hedging, was legalized.

Well developed markets for real estate derivatives would allow homeowners to kick the gambling habit.

For example, we need stronger consumer protection for retail financial products, stricter disclosure requirements for new securities, and better designed vehicles for hedging risks.

Ever since Copenhagen, a majority of the main greenhouse gas emitting countries have been setting out ambitious goals without hedging them with restrictive conditions.

But, for economists who actively engage the public, it is hard to influence hearts and minds by qualifying one s analysis and hedging one s prescriptions.

If investors in derivatives, repos, and credit default swaps lacked favored treatment, they would behave differently.

This opened the way to options, selling and buying on credit, and derivatives of all kinds.

Registration is laborious and time consuming, and would discourage the use of over the counter derivatives.

Indeed, today the market for derivatives is oligopolistic, with a few banks running huge profit margins.

In 2000, Boeing offered the 747X and 747X Stretch derivatives as alternatives to the Airbus A3XX.

Differences of opinion between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had obstructed effective oversight of investment banks and derivatives trading (only the US believes that it makes sense to regulate securities and derivatives separately).