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The SEC’s investment adviser public database is undergoing maintenance. Can’t access ADV brochures. Not sure if / how often this ever happens. But doesn’t seem good.

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Black History doesn't end on February 28th. 🖤🖕🏽✊🏽

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General strike.

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Long and variable lags, mass downsizing edition.

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Educating the public of their rights is preserving and protecting the constitution.

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Call for Papers (3/7 deadline) — ABA Administrative Law Live Spring Conference (Washington, DC): www.yalejreg.com/nc/call-for-...

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Monday links where I talk about debanking, Rodney Hood's appointment, Fed politics, Marxist errors, why we should tune out a bit more, and why I cannot get enough of the Kelce-Swift-Mahomes-Reid frowny-face memes. petercontibrown.substack.com/p/monday-lin...

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Every attorney takes a version of this oath. I took mine more than two decades ago. It still means something to me.

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💥CFP: Wharton Financial Regulation Conference - 4/25. Submission deadline 2/10.💥 Academics working on topics in financial regulation (broadly defined): we hope you'll submit your work!

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Here's my piece with @rooseveltinstitute.org colleague Emily Divito on how the Musk-Treasury payments scandal is worse than it appears. When people lose trust in the money and payments systems, that's how panics, bank runs, and financial crises happen. 1/ news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...

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Dear journalists: Now, more than ever, ✨The lawyers need to see the actual court filings.✨ Yes, I know you summarized. Yes, I know your non-attorney readers don't care. But we need to see the documents. The actual documents. If you're pulling docs from PACER, use RECAP & give us a link. Please.

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For law profs who haven't submitted yet: if you're citing to federal-government websites and you're, um, not sure if the websites will still be up a year from now, perma.cc allows you to create an archived copy. It's the same service law reviews use to prevent link rot.

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Pete Stavros Fellowships in the Economics of Employee Share Ownership - Call for Applications #FundSocSci #EconSky smlr.rutgers.edu/institute-st...

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Great article, quotes Carolyn Kousky, @scrawford.bsky.social Freddie has been trying to hire a climate risk specialist for... months? If anyone is up for unpicking this knot (DC only): www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/38... 🎁 link: The Climate Risk to the Mortgage System www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

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The FSOC Annual Report checks in on the basis trade ⬇️ Keep in mind that our Treasury secretary nominee wants the Treasury to shift to issuing more duration...

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www.bankofengland.co.uk/events/2025/... #EconSky

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Are you interested in #finreg and pine for the days of #fintwit? Are you on @bsky.app? Well then the FinRegSky starter pack is for you! If you want to be added to the pack please let me know in the replies. (If you want to be taken out, please let me know that too.) go.bsky.app/K1ioxa8

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Monday links is up at my blog. I talk about the social value of payments innovation, banking regulation and politics, deposit insurance, and--not to navel gaze too much--why I moved to Bluesky. Take a look! open.substack.com/pub/petercon...

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More than 11.1% of credit card debt in Q3 this year was 90 or more days delinquent, the highest level since Q1 2012. Severe auto loan and mortgage debt delinquency also on the rise -NY Fed

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A good a time to revisit this 2015 speech from Fed Chair Powell (then Governor Powell) on “Audit the Fed”:

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“US regulators led by the Federal Reserve have refused to endorse a plan that would have seen the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision push lenders to disclose their climate risk, according to people familiar with the matter.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I have just been told that what we’re doing here is “skeeting.” How is it not SKYWRITING?!

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I created a Business Scholars Starter Pack (law profs, business-school profs, sociologists, economists, etc.). Let me know who I've missed and I'll add. go.bsky.app/TPJf9ts

submitted 114 days ago • 45 comments

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

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Coming June 2025, apparently.

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