“I worry about liquidity and any of you, particularly institutional investors, who understand how important liquidity is to be able to get things done; to have things that will throw sand in the gears to me is not very helpful.”

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“I worry about liquidity and any of you, particularly institutional investors, who understand how important liquidity is to be able to get things done; to have things that will throw sand in the gears to me is not very helpful.”

—Bill Brodsky, chairman and ceo of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, on the effects financial transaction taxes in the U.S. and Europe would have on the securities and derivatives markets.

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