The World Bank is helping to set up a means for providing Erdenet with commodity-price insurance, so smoothing out price volatility.

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He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.

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He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services -- not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.

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"Stock markets, insurance markets, commodity markets--they used to be prohibited by gambling laws but were thought to be useful and given an exception, " says Hanson.

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To prevent a repeat of the credit crunch and market breakdowns we have witnessed over the past two years, extensive rule-making by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among others, will be necessary.

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On the other hand, they omit fees collected by all manner of planners, advisers, pension consultants, stock pickers, dog walkers and commodity traders who are on their own or work at insurance companies and commercial banks.

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By restricting government support to a single identical plan, it forces insurance companies offering the Basic Plan to compete to sell a uniform commodity, which will make competition really thrive.

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It is because they want to be re-elected and they need the big political donations from those who lobby for the insurance industry, the medical device industry, the pharmaceutical companies, the commodity producers and a host of others.

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