In the case of some of them the question will arise whether in future they should be a regular component of the “normal” tool box. As for our purchases of government bonds from euro area countries however, I don’t see that happening.
Thereafter, repeated efforts were made to regulate or prohibit trading of futures and options on agricultural products. When the Agriculture Department reviewed the Congressional Record in 1920, it found that 164 measures of this sort had previously been introduced. These efforts culminated in passage of the Futures Trading Act of 1921.