Robinhood is infamous for gamification techniques aimed at getting users to thoughtlessly trade more often and trade riskier products. It's no surprise they are now offering bets on elections, trivializing our democracy and providing even more addictive content. Gordon Gottsegen MarketWatch Morningstar Our Steve Hall notes in the story that "these markets are risky, easy to manipulate, and perfect vehicles for the popular ads and apps that make such wagering so tempting and for some, so addictive." https://lnkd.in/eE7Xu49G
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Better Markets is a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization working to build a more secure financial system for all Americans. Better Markets works to rebuild those protections by restoring laws, rules and regulations that shield families on Main Street from the high-risk, dangerous activities on Wall Street. Our team of professionals - including President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Kelleher and markets, regulatory and legislative specialists, along with lawyers and communicators – is the counterweight to Wall Street’s special interests in Washington DC. When Wall Street is pushing those special interests, they run right into Better Markets, which is right there pushing back with the public interest. We’re the American people’s voice in the courts, the Congress and the regulatory agencies, fighting against Wall Street recklessness while fighting for reform. Our agenda-setting analysis provides a critical balance in the rulemaking and policymaking debates, and our expert research has made Better Markets the go-to source for trusted and substantive information about our financial markets, economic policy and key policy proposals. Over the last five years, Better Markets has had a significant impact on financial reform – from re-shaping the political discourse to strengthening many parts of the Dodd-Frank rule making process. We’ve become a potent counterweight to the industry as the rules of financial reform are being drafted and challenged, filing nearly 200 comment letters so that agencies finalize the strongest possible safeguards to protect the American people from another financial crash.
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Bob Pisani of CNBC does an excellent job of examining the issues around expanding trading hours. Dennis Kelleher explains that these changes can lead to much wider bid-ask spreads, the encouragement of impulsive trading at late hours, and the disadvantage retail traders may face against better-informed professional trader “All of that will be compounded by the increased use of AI, predictive analytics, and gamification on apps that will be hyper-targeted on those most susceptible to trading at times and in ways that are not in their best interests." https://lnkd.in/esbFnffr You can learn more about the risks of extending trading hours in Benjamin Schiffrin's recent comment letter: https://lnkd.in/edPc_yJJ
The pros and cons for investors of nonstop trading as NYSE looks to go 22 hours a day
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Dennis Kelleher tells Shane Goldmacher of The New York Times “Former President Trump has a ‘For Sale’ sign around his neck and appears to be willing to sell basically any policy in exchange for campaign contributions.” https://lnkd.in/eFuX8mJK
How Donald Trump Is Making Big Promises to Big Business
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Today in #MorningMoney Jasper Goodman of POLITICO covers "Coinbase's #Crypto Crusade", which includes massive lobbying and campaign spending. Our Dennis Kelleher explains “#Coinbase, like any special interest — using vast and seemingly unlimited amounts of money to buy politicians and the political system to promote their interests over everything else — is a perversion and corruption of the campaign and political systems." https://lnkd.in/eNF3jhn
Morning Money
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Thoughtful piece by John Authers of Bloomberg on the future of election prediction markets. In the piece our Cantrell Dumas explains what's at stake when it comes to our democracy- “In a traditional market, if a regulator sees manipulation and takes action, it has remedies. With election manipulation that changes the result, that’s irreparable harm. It’s a fundamental distinction." https://lnkd.in/eSnjxQsw
Could Political Betting Swing the US Election?
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Especially in these pivotal yet fragile political times, the last thing our country needs is for democracy to be undermined further by allowing gambling on elections. And investors will suffer in droves, as these markets are risky, easy to manipulate, and perfect vehicles for the popular ads and apps that make such wagering so tempting and for some, so addictive. Learn more about this threat to our democracy in our new court filing. https://lnkd.in/ehe7PWvB
Appellate Court Must Protect Democracy, Investors, and the CFTC by Prohibiting Gambling on Elections | Better Markets
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Better Markets is fighting for a financial system that prioritizes Main Street over Wall Street, supports long-term growth, and creates opportunities for everyone. Your support will help us to continue advocating for change across Washington, from the financial regulatory agencies and Capitol Hill to the White House and beyond. https://lnkd.in/e-5WqjXB
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#IndexFunds are widely regarded as one of the most successful innovations in modern finance. They offer retail investors the benefits of diversification while charging much lower fees than actively managed funds. Yet the popularity of index funds has allowed the three main index fund managers to accumulate enormous power, which has the potential to harm investors. In a new report our Director of Securities Policy Benjamin Schiffrin examines the consolidation that is now a feature of the industry: https://bit.ly/4eVsWU8
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Important story by Freddy Brewster of the #Lever on efforts to weaken consumer/investor rights through the #SCOTUS. Our Legal Director Steve Hall explains "It boils down to limiting the ability of those investors to hold wrongdoers accountable & to recover their damage." https://lnkd.in/ehBzkzkH Learn more about the weakening of consumer and investor protections in our recent #SCOTUS report: https://lnkd.in/ekpTKtDb
“Friends Of The Court” Urge SCOTUS To Slash Consumer Rights
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Lisa Bonos of the The Washington Post writes on the rise of election betting with our Cantrell Dumas warning that "whales" could sway the markets with large bets and that tactics like AI deepfakes could manipulate markets and our elections. https://lnkd.in/ebhBTkfS
Billions in election bets raise the stakes of the presidential race
washingtonpost.com