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December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Read our new Substack: Banking is at a Crossroads, and Policymakers Must Choose the Right Way Forward bettermarkets.substack.com/p/banking-is...
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Read our new Substack: "The Trump Administration Can Honor the Military Community by Protecting and Strengthening the CFPB" by @travishorr.bsky.social
bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
TODAY at 1:30pm EST! Register for our webinar here: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/bet...
October 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
REGISTER for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, October 23 at 1:30pm EST: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/bet...
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Better Markets began 15 years ago today! Today and in the future, our work remains the same as the day we were founded: stand up for hardworking Main Street Americans and fight for an economy that will work for everyone, not just Wall Street.
bettermarkets.org/newsroom/15-...
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Jared Bernstein, Former Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, is closing out the State of Economic and Financial Policymaking Conference with a keynote address.
September 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
.jennifertaub.com, BMAAB Co-Chair & Prof. of Law, Wayne State University joins Anat Admati, Prof. of Finance and Economics, Stanford GSB; Hilary Allen, Prof., American University College of Law; and Patricia McCoy, Professor of Law, BC Law School to discuss financial "innovation & distortion."
September 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
[email protected], Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board & MIT Prof. of Global Economics & Management discusses financial stability w/ Art Wilmarth, GW Prof Emeritus of Law & Gerald Epstein, UMass-Amherst Prof. of Economics & Founding Co-Dir., Political Economy Research Inst.
September 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"The shape of the financial system has shifted from where it was in the Great Financial Crisis, from a bank-centric hub-and-spoke system with the banks in the middle and everyone else around the periphery to more of a web, with private credit more central in that web." - @markzandi.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Antonio Weiss, Former Counselor to the Secretary of the United States Treasury and Partner, SSW Partners LP offers joint keynote on private credit and systemic risk with @markzandi.bsky.social, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics. Watch now: tinyurl.com/BMAAB2025
September 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Better Markets COO and Policy Director @amandalfischer celebrates the impactful work of scholars within the Better Markets academic network, including Academic Advisory Board Co-Chair @baselinescene, awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics. tinyurl.com/BMAABAbout
September 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Kate Judge, Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board & Columbia Law Prof. joins @jeremykress.bsky.social, Assoc. Professor U-M Business and Co-Faculty Dir. U-M Ctr on Finance, Law & Policy; @skandaamarnath.bsky.social, Exec. Dir. @employamerica.bsky.social to discuss what's next for the Fed.
September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thomas Ferguson, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Boston, offers a research update on "Crypto's Political Economy." Follow along here: t.co/rz5QC1yzZC
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today's State of Economic & Financial Policymaking Conference is underway with a keynote address from SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw. Tune in now! tinyurl.com/msukfkd4
September 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This week! Join us on Friday, September 19 for the State of Economic & Financial Policymaking Conference, hosted by our Academic Advisory Board—bold ideas, expert panels. bettermarkets.org/analysis/bet...
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
One week away: the State of Economic & Financial Policymaking Conference. Hear panels and keynotes with bold ideas, expert insights, and collaborative dialogue on the future of economic and financial policymaking. Register here: bettermarkets.org/analysis/bet...
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Read our new Substack post about the SEC's recently released rulemaking agenda: bettermarkets.substack.com/p/chair-atki...
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Join us on September 19 for the State of Economic & Financial Policymaking Conference, hosted by our Academic Advisory Board—bold ideas, expert panels. Register here: bettermarkets.org/analysis/bet...
September 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Join us 9/19 for the State of Economic & Financial Policymaking Conference, hosted by our Academic Advisory Board—bold ideas, expert panels. DC + Virtual. RSVP: bettermarkets.org/analysis/bet...
August 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
In a new Substack, @benschiffrin.bsky.social discusses the rise of unregulated financial influencing—"finfluencing"—and what the SEC should do about it. bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-sec-mu...
July 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In a recent speech, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Hood stated that 50 million Americans own crypto. In a letter, we explained that this statistic is false. According to the Fed, only 7% of American adults—about 24 million people—used crypto at all in 2023. bettermarkets.org/wp-content/u...
May 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We are proud to announce that @denniskelleher.bsky.social has been named one of the Most Influential People in Washington by @washingtonian.com for the fifth year in a row. Congratulations, Dennis!

www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/07/w...
May 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The federal courts have long played an important role in financial regulation. But now, they are serving as a critical check on the Administration's lawless attacks on the regulatory agencies.

Read more in our Substack: bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-shifti...
May 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New Report out by @denniskelleher.bsky.social: Trump’s Wall Street Deregulation on Steroids is Going to Cause a Horrific Economic Crash on Main Street

4 More Years of Deregulation on Top of 4 Decades Will Be Catastrophic

Read here: bettermarkets.org/newsroom/100...
April 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM