Amanda Fischer
@amandalfischer.bsky.social
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Current: @bettermarkets.bsky.social
Former: Chief of Staff at the Securities & Exchange Commission and policy advisor in the House and Senate on financial services policy.
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In the past nine months, the SEC has strayed from the standard rulemaking process that is supposed to let members of the public have equal opportunity to comment on changes before they go into effect. Read more in a Substack by @amandalfischer.bsky.social: bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-secret...
The Secret Securities and Exchange Commission
By Amanda Fischer, Policy Director & COO
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![Groundhog Day
There is a tragic throughline running through this long-running script: financial industry leaders blow past legal guardrails, citing that their technological innovations cannot possibly be cabined in by outmoded rules created by a previous generation. Regulatory and law enforcement officials are under-resourced and out-gunned even at times when they have the best intentions for fulfilling the public interest. Other times, these officials are captured by the very industries they're tasked to police. In either case, industries are too often able to establish economic power through their noncompliance with existing law and translate it into political power to rewrite the rules to bless their business models. This noncompliance in the face of clear existing legal precedent creates the very "uncertainty" that the industry points to as a justification to change the law. And the final rhetorical move is to invoke international competitiveness, hoping to scare lawmakers into believing that a failure to bend the law to an industry's favor will harm U.S. industries, jobs and growth.
Crypto has memorized this script and is reading their lines in an Oscar-worthy performance to many policymakers. Congressional hearings bemoan the "legal uncertainty" caused by applying longstanding laws to arrangements that look a lot like pre-existing investment schemes but are digital or blockchain-based. Crypto industry petitions to federal agencies say that Great Depression-era laws "[prevent] market participants from leveraging the efficiencies new technology can offer."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:32lvgu3krzhhw3h6k3pme72r/bafkreih6mirekxauy353h5w7jg2qg4cxkbf4lcl25dzqhiicoejnd2wkou@jpeg)
Reposted by Amanda Fischer
NEW: Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics ran an anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, anti-gay slurs, and far-right conspiracy theories.
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Trump’s pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics ran anonymous Twitter account filled with sexually degrading and bigoted attacks | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay...
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Trump posts a letter stating that he is removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook
Our COO & Policy Director @amandalfischer.bsky.social appeared on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social to discuss the volatility and speculative nature of crypto. Watch: www.cbsnews.com/news/the-cry...
The crypto craze sweeping Washington and Wall Street
While many Americans are still baffled by cryptocurrency, enthusiasm for these digital assets is growing - despite the potential risks of integrating digital currencies with the mainstream economy - i...
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My printers never work for long. Set up goes fine to my iMac and iPad. It will print a few times and then stop communicating with server. This didn’t happen when I used same printer during my field work this year. That means the issue is, as I suspected, something with my WiFi’s IP protocols.