The benefits of cleared markets include open and transparent markets and a level playing filed with a transparent central order book, he said and addresses system risk.

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Other counties around the nation should do what we have done to make the financial information at the local level transparent to their citizens.

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Because the system depends on level, transparent markets to work well, whereas the growing power and wealth disparities it is generating pretty much guarantee the opposite.

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