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On the recordNovember 2, 2011
So the point I am making is we had position limits on those commodities, yet we saw tremendous swings, tremendous increased speculation, and tremendous increased volatility.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn discusses the ineffectiveness of position limits on commodity price volatility.

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