Jonah, Eli is right on the money. James Pethokoukis of U.S. News points out that a certain senator from New York used to love futures:

You would think that if any member of the Senate Armed Services Committee understood a thing or two about futures markets, it would be the Cattle Queen of Arkansas, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not only did Clinton display Soros-esque market timing during her days as a futures speculator, but she’s a native of Chicago, home of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. (It was the Merc where she famously turned $10,000 into $100,000 on cattle futures.) But the junior senator from New York was derisively dramatic when she described the Pentagon’s proposed futures market for predicting terrorist strikes as a “futures market in death” as if it were a financial version of the death match in Stephen King’s Running Man.