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The Peirce Safe Harbor Could Be Transformative

Diego Zuluaga/February 12, 2020June 19, 2022

Uncertainty about the application of the securities laws has been an important concern, and a barrier to growth, for many crypto projects. Commissioner Peirce’s safe harbor would go a long way toward addressing that uncertainty.

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Digital Money, Financial Innovation, News

Should Cryptocurrencies Be Regulated like Securities?

Diego Zuluaga/June 25, 2018June 19, 2022

Should cryptocurrencies be regulated like securities? Financial regulators have been pondering this question for some time. In a Briefing Paper published today by the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, I suggest that securities regulation would only seem warranted in certain clearly circumscribed cases. For…

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Financial Markets, News

A Green Light for Investment Crowdfunding?

Thaya Brook Knight/October 29, 2015June 19, 2022

There’s big news in the crowdfunding world.  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that they are (finally) voting on final rules Friday that would make investment crowdfunding legal. Other types of crowdfunding — funding a venture with small amounts of money solicited from a large group of…

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Wasting a Crisis: A Book Forum

Thaya Brook Knight/May 15, 2015June 19, 2022

This is a story we all know: the Great Depression was caused by market failure, the predictable fall-out from the excesses of the unrestrained, unregulated, Wild West that was the securities markets at the dawn of the 20th century.  After all, before the 1930s, there was no…

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