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The Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing on “Regulatory Reform and the Derivatives Markets” on June 4, 2009. Mike Masters submitted a detailed blueprint for exactly what should be done to protect the American people from another financial system collapse and another excessive speculation bubble in food and energy prices.
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Unfortunately you cannot link directly to the Hearing’s page but I would recommend watching the video from the hearing and/or reading the written testimonies of the witnesses (many of whom were quite good).
[...] These are the results, said energy trader Michael Masters, in his June 2009 testimony to Congress, calling for regulation of speculation: When speculators become dominant in the market for derivatives on consumable commodities, the supply- and demand-based trading of physical commodity producers takes a back seat to the high stakes trading of speculators as they attempt to out trade each other. [...]