We do not regulate prices or the level of prices, or volatility itself, but we have to ensure that the markets have integrity.
I think that through the extensive work that Congress did in its oversight and putting together the Act...
I believe we have the authority not to impose it, and that is what we plan to do if I move forward.
Speculators and hedgers each meet in a marketplace and both have roles in the marketplaces.
We put out proposals on position limits to use the authority that this body--and in fact, this Committee was probably the first Committee th...
I think you would have to ask the Secretary of the Treasury what he is going to do on that, with all respect.
I think transparency enhances liquidity, not diminishes liquidity, but they would take the other side of that, and I respect that we might h...
I believe as long as we follow Congress's mandate that the blocks are delayed and second, that we protect that the confidentiality of the pa...
We are concerned and disappointed that the CFTC is using the Dodd-Frank legislation to not only implement a regulatory regime for previously...
The market worldwide is about $600 trillion notional, about a little less than half of that is here, but let us call it $300 trillion.
Based on Bank for International Settlements data, it is somewhere in the order of nine or ten percent of notional amount is between non-fina...