Soros likes cap and trade because it can be "gamed:"
12/4/09, "Carbon Capitalists Warming to Climate Market using Derivatives," Bloomberg, by A. Kassenar
(subhead, 'Not convinced'): "Even George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund operator, says money managers would find ways to manipulate cap-and-trade markets.
“The system can be gamed,” Soros, 79, remarked at a London School of Economics seminar in July.
“That’s why financial types like me like it -- because there are financial opportunities.”...
In carbon markets, many
of the derivatives would be futures, options and swaps that would allow
a company to lock in a price for carbon like it would for any other
commodity related to its business..."...
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