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Regulators Have Not Been Able To Achieve The Level Of Future Clarity Required To Act Pre-emptively. The Problem Is Not Lack Of Regulation But Unrealistic Expectations. What We Confront In Reality Is Uncertainty, Some Of It Frighteningly So...

The Probability Of Ten Consecutive Heads Is 0.1 Percent; Thus, When You Have Millions Of Coin Tossers, Or Investors, In The End There Will Be Thousands Of Very Successful Practitioners Of Coin Tossing, Or Stock Picking.

We Will Have More Crises And None Of Them Will Look Like This Because No Two Crises Have Anything In Common Except Human Nature.

What We Have Found Over The Years In The Marketplace Is That Derivatives Have Been An Extraordinarily Useful Vehicle To Transfer Risk From Those Who Shouldn't Be Taking It To Those Who Are Willing To And Are Capable Of Doing So.

Given Our Inevitably Incomplete Knowledge About Key Structural Aspects Of Our Ever-changing Economy And The Sometimes Asymmetric Costs Or Benefits Of Particular Outcomes, A Central Bank... Need To Consider Not Only The Most Likely Future Path For The Economy But Also The Distribution Of Possible Outcomes About That Path. They Then Need To Reach A Judgment About The Probabilities, Costs, And Benefits Of The Various Possible Outcomes Under Alternative Choices For Policy.