Michael Selig
speaker
215 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Michael Selig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's difficult.
There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there.
Well, there's certainly some mission creep beyond what's really critical here.
We want to set standards and protect consumers, protect investors, and that's something that Democrats and Republicans should be able to get behind.
I do think there's a little bit of this creep into ethics and other types of extraneous issues, and they're just derailing this real opportunity to have a bipartisan bill in place.
Otherwise, you end up with regulators like me writing all the rules, and I'm sure all the Democrats would prefer to get something in place that's bipartisan.
So the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is one of those little-known agencies, but we actually oversee a very large market.
So the commodity derivatives market in the United States is approximately $600 trillion notional.
It covers everything from oil and gas futures to crypto asset futures.
Well, look, we've seen a lot of volatility in these markets.
Of course, that's related to the geopolitics, everything going on.
in iran but we're really glad to start to see gas prices come down because americans were paying for that at the pump and it's really important of course that we have that victory in iran and now we're getting our oil prices back in shape um let's talk a little bit about uh bitcoin because my wife will not let me sell a single coin she's like
It's interesting.
Bitcoin has proven to be one of the most anti-fragile.
You know, that's a coin term by Nassim Taleb.
It's this asset that no matter what happens in our markets, no matter what happens in geopolitics and our political environment, it survives and it tends to thrive on this chaos.
We saw with the implosion of Mt.
Gox back in 2014, 2015.
Then we saw the implosion of FTX.
We saw the crackdown under the Biden administration off the debanking of
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