And it is great that people are more aware and concerned about issues like climate change, but it would be even better if they supported their elected representatives not to lose their nerve in negotiating effective regulatory instruments in this area.

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That kind of power has been missing in the government because there are many instruments and forms of instruments that no regulatory authority had any ability to oversee when things started getting out of control.

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Going forward, column-based analytic servers can manage the complexity that overwhelmed humans in 2008, but standards and regulatory authority must extend worldwide to instruments, institutions and people.

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Will these be sensible, such as rationalizing our myriad, overlapping financial regulatory structures and pushing for the creation of exchanges and clearinghouses for exotic instruments, such as credit default swaps, so we have transparency and standardization?

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