Derivatives, Futures, Options, Swaps etc - Government Hearings

1980s

  • 1985 0617 - GOV (House) - Options Market and the National Market System
    • [PDF-869p-GooglePlay, VIDEO-?]
    • House - Committee on Energy and Commerce - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

1990s

  • 1998 1001 - GOV (House) - Risks of Hedge Fund Operations - Hedge Fund Operations Risks - Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) - 4:32:xx
    • [PDF-p, VIDEO-CSPAN] ->not on govinfo.gov
    • Greenspan, Leach, Frank, Kanjorski,
    • William J. McDonough - President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
    • House - Banking Committee
    • ... testimony on hedge funds and their effect on the global economy. Federal monetary officials, investors and professors testified.
  • 1998 1001 - GOV (House) - Risks of Hedge Fund Operations - Hedge Fund Operations Risks - 2:40:xx
    • [PDF-p, VIDEO-CSPAN]
    • Brooksley E. Born, CFTC-Chair 
    • Julie L. Williams - Comptroller of the Currency (Acting)Department of the Treasury

2000s

  • 2008 1014 - GOV (Senate) - The Role of Financial Derivatives in the Current Financial Crisis, CSPAN -  Hearing to Review the Role of Credit Derivatives in the U.S. Economy
    • [PDF-135p, VIDEO-CSPAN] - <mp3, mp4> 
    • Senate - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
    • Tom Harkin (IA), Eric Dinallo (NYSID)
    • Testimony Dinallo Before the Senate Ag Committee_1.pdf - 8p
    • 3:43:00 - Chairman Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) 
      • (p65) - But I think that for some reason, that concerns me, that we are just developing these instruments, as I mentioned, the collateralized debt obligations, the collateralized mortgage obligations, the credit default swaps, all these things going back, even back when Fannie Mae started those things back in 1983.
        • And I am not certain, I am not convinced that there was a demand out there for these.
        • It is just people got together and said, we have got a new product here.
        • We can market it and we can make money on it.
        • And they kind of took on a life of their own.
  • 2009 0604 – GOV (Senate) - Regulatory Reform and the Derivatives Market
    • [PDF-196p]
    • Ben Nelson (D-NE), Gary Gensler (CFTC)
    • Senate - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry