i still say the most effective means, are the inncent large organizations that will be hurt by thiis
CME, charles Schwabb, IB etc, had nothing to do with the TARP business
In the case of CME/IB, you're raising the transaction cost 40 times on an e-mini
that's not an increase in cost, it's an end to it, becase people wont trade 1/40th as much they'll QUIT
the principals on which the CME were created, farm commodity liquidity, werent created in the 1990s, or even the 1890s - they existed long before - there were ruinous grain liquity problems prior to these exchanges. not that industies PR should be taken only at face value, but society should at least glance at the freaking brochure (and ask 'is it true')before slamming a 140 year old industry out of existence
and it cant exist without traders - period
this proposal would put CME out of business - it cant exist without speculators - speculators are what give the commodities liquity - there's no substitute
in my opinion CME actually IS manageing risk (by providing liquitiy) as it's supposed to do
and if you take their law abiding participants out and shoot them, it cant provide that punction any more