Friday, December 12, 2025

SEC's Commissioner Crenshaw (D) Warns on Markets Turning into Casinos during a speech at The Brookings Institution. Really!

Serious stuff! Headline of the day!

Is she trying to trigger a stock market crash?

How President Trump might respond to that? He may have to fire her!

"Caroline Crenshaw, commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, spoke about the future of financial regulation at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC on 11 December 2025. She is the only commissioner who is a Democrat and said her voice has become one of “ubiquitous dissent.”

“It’s been unsettling to see how precipitously one commission is willing to undo the work of the commission that came before, all without a single notice and comment rule making to date,” she said. “The commission has also been shrouding its policy making in darkness shunning public comment, and instead relying on hidden voices to drive its agenda in a mad dash to implement its policy preferences.”

She described the regulator’s approach as treating investors like “silly children to be ignored” rather than fully formed persons with ideas and concerns worth hearing.

The fundamental precepts upon which U.S  markets are built are being eroded and that the core the country’s intricate market structure is under attack, according to Crenshaw. ...

“Instead of safeguarding our markets for investors to fund their retirements in safe and sustainable ways, we are moving in a direction where markets start to look like casinos,” she said. “The problem with casinos is that in the long run, the house always wins.” ..."

SEC's Crenshaw Warns on Markets Turning into Casinos - Markets Media


Caroline Crenshaw (Source)


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