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Days of Futures Past Episode 1 | Scott Irwin, Professor, University of Illinois and Author of “Back to the Futures”
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The Dangers of Commodity Futures Contracts
Bob Greene: There are conditions that create fertile ground for new commodity futures contracts. But there are also dangers that we have to guard against if we want these markets to grow and develop, he says. He asks about two of the more common ways that markets can be damaged or killed; one from within and one from without. Greene: I'd like to talk with you about the controversy over the lack of convergence between the futures and the physical cash market in the wheat futures market in the 2000s. It was an enormous controversy with potentially enormous regulatory repercussions.
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