Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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In a speech before the New York Stock Exchange this week, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins slammed the Biden administration for using financial rules as a political weapon.
While sporting a bright red Make IPOs Great Again hat, Atkins promised to return to what he called America's Hamiltonian dynamism and to bring an end to the mountains of ESG disclosures and red tape that have throttled innovation and driven companies overseas.
The question before us is not whether our entrepreneurs have the capacity to reinvent and reinvigorate our capital markets, but whether we as regulators have the will. In this new day, the SEC and under President Trump's leadership, I am pleased to report that we do.
In this episode, we sit down with Chairman Atkins to discuss how to make initial public offering markets great again and how we can keep countries like China honest when trading with the U.S. I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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Chapter 2: What are the major changes in U.S. capital markets over the past decade?
And we saw what happened with FTX there, which was Sam Backman Freed's operation, which was in the Bahamas. And he did a lot of hanky-panky there and hand in the till and whatnot. But he had one, and this is the example I'd like to show. There was one legitimate firm that he had bought that was still operating in the United States. And it was a swaps trading platform for cryptocurrencies there.
And that was under CFTC regulation, and it had – it bided by segregated accounts for customers. So when FTX imploded, LedgerX, it was called, didn't skip a beat. It operated. No customer lost any assets.
Chapter 3: How does SEC Chairman Paul Atkins criticize the Biden administration's financial regulations?
And then here recently, it was just sold out of the bankruptcy estate. And it lives on to do good by its customers. So that's an example of how responsible regulation and embracing financial innovation can lead to benefits for everybody.
You said during your speech that the path to public ownership has become narrower and costlier. How do we reverse that? How do we get back to broader and more affordable?
Well, so we're talking about companies becoming public. And so today we have about half the number of public companies as we had 30 years ago. And so that comes about, you know, you have mergers and acquisitions and you have bankruptcies and whatever. But so that takes, you know, the companies out of that space. population.
And unless you have new ones coming in to replace the defunct ones, then you're going to have necessarily a diminishing number of corporations. Over – what I'm suggesting here is that we address the reasons why people don't want to go public. So the idea is to make IPOs great again, initial public offerings great again, and to make it cool to be public again.
And the reason why people do not want to take their companies public is, one, the high cost of – by the regulations that the SEC has imposed over the years. Two is the litigation issues around you know, a lot of frivolous lawsuits, let's say, that are filed against public companies because lawyers know that they can extract some, you know, settlement and then get contingency fees out of that.
And then finally is the weaponization of corporate governance. So, shareholding proposals, many of your listeners probably, you know, have owners of securities in one way or another. And so you often every year for the annual general shareholder meeting, you get a proxy statement in the mail.
And oftentimes there is, you know, at least one or more, uh, things that, uh, shareholders are asked to vote on. So those have been weaponized over the years by politicized shareholder activists who are pushing social agendas and other, they have their ax to grind about something.
Most of these things don't get adopted by the shareholders at the annual meeting, but it's used to pressure management in order to, uh, kind of extract from management concessions that advance the interests of these special interest groups.
Are you talking about ESGs there? That's something that we've reported on in the past. That kind of political agenda?
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