Introduction Mr. Chairman, fellow Governors, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my great pleasure and privilege to participate in today's Bank of Albania and London School of Economics and Political Science co-organized conference entitled: Monetary Policy, Economic Integration and “the New Normal”. There is no doubt that the topic is relevant. We are talking about the Southern-Eastern Europe (SEE) joining the EU.
BIS Review 19/1997  -3-  It has been the trading of agricultural futures, however, that from its inception has produced calls for government intervention. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, farmers were often opposed to futures trading, particularly during periods when prices of their products were low or declining. They presumed that dreaded speculators were depressing their prices.