Gary Gensler actually said...

I think that going back to the genesis of this market, and it happened in Senator Durbin's State, in Chicago, in the 1860s, when a wheat farmer or somebody growing corn, they needed to lock in a price at harvest time.

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Gensler explains the historical context of speculation in markets.

03/20/2012

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