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SEC-CFTC Merger Sounds Like a Win for DOGE. Don’t Be Fooled.

SEC-CFTC Merger Sounds Like a Win for DOGE. Don’t Be Fooled.
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Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Don’t Bank on Your Banking Job Outlasting AI

Don’t Bank on Your Banking Job Outlasting AI

Over the past few months, I’ve had occasion to speak at a number of conferences concerned with the impact of artificial intelligence on financial...

14.01.2025 8

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

No, California's $20 Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers Did Not Create Jobs

Minimum Wage Aaron Brown | 12.19.2024 11:45 AM After California's $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect in April, some economists...

19.12.2024 3

Reason.com

Aaron Brown

Asness’ AI Twin Heralds End of Human Fund Managers

Hedge fund executive Cliff Asness says artificial intelligence is becoming “annoyingly better” at doing parts of his job. AI deployed by his firm...

06.12.2024 3

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Paul Atkins Will Bring Back 1990s-Style SEC Policing

Paul Atkins, Donald Trump’s choice to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, could signal the end of an era in securities regulation that...

05.12.2024 3

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Goldman Gives the Blockchain Revolution a Home

Most important advances in technology occur when someone combines a variety of innovations in different fields in a commercially successful way....

23.11.2024 80

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

The IPO Slump Is Fine Unless You’re Jamie Dimon

Two senior Wall Street executives complained this week that over-regulation is discouraging initial public offerings. JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO...

11.10.2024 5

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

In Markets, Crystal Balls Lose to the Many Quiet Voices

Victor Haghani, James White and Jerry Bell of Elm Partners Management conducted a fascinating experiment to investigate the value of getting...

01.10.2024 7

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Fischer Black Would See Bubbles as Traps for Traders

Cliff Asness, co-founder of AQR Capital Management, made the news recently with the provocative claim that financial markets are getting less...

23.09.2024 3

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Election Predictions Are Too Noisy to Tell If Trump or Harris Wins

What is the probability that Donald Trump will win the 2024 presidential election? Assuming you’re not a superforecaster with access to inside...

04.09.2024 1

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Wager on the NFL or Invest? It’s Not About Morality

Does legalized online sports betting strain family finances? A recent study, “Gambling Away Stability: Sports Betting's Impact on Vulnerable...

20.08.2024 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

An AI Miracle Won’t Save Struggling Pension Funds

A teachers’ pension fund in Ohio is embroiled in a controversy reminiscent of a streaming series, with a reform movement and the state’s...

13.08.2024 10

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Pension Funds Are Hooked on Private Equity, No Matter the Risks

Private equity has been in the news frequently in the last few weeks, and not in a good way. The Teachers Retirement System of Texas this month...

31.07.2024 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Private Equity Is Illiquid by Design. Why Worry About It?

A recent Financial Times opinion piece laid out how illiquidity makes private equity hazardous for investors. The Bank of England’s Nathanaël...

23.07.2024 3

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown