Forcing Americans to directly subsidize these economic losers on the front end and then forcing them to purchase this more expensive energy on the back end is a sure-fire way to weaken our economy and weaken our nation.

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If this happens, in short order China will once again have to repair and rebuild bank balance sheets, either by directly recapitalizing the banks, or by forcing savers to subsidize profits, or, most likely, by a combination of the two.

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From a market structure perspective, the concern is that there is no practical way to opt out of interacting with these superfluous market makers, and because of the take fees charged by exchanges, directional traders are effectively forced to subsidize HFTs even though there are other directional traders they could interact with directly.

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