2025-09-01
47 分钟Welcome to Macro Musings,
where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past,
present, and future.
I am your host, David Beckwith,
a Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
and I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Commissioner Hester Peirce of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Prior to joining the SEC, Hester was my colleague here at the Mercatus Center,
where she headed the financial regulation team.
Hester also was a senior counsel on the U.S.
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs,
where she advised ranking member Shelby and other members of the committee.
Hester also served as counsel to SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins prior to that.
Hester joins us today to discuss the evolving role of the SEC in the digital financial age,
the importance of dissent in regulatory institutions,
and her recent calls to rethink America's financial surveillance regime.
Hester, welcome back to the program.
David, it's great to be back.
I do want to start with my disclaimer, which is that my views are my own views as a commissioner,
not necessarily those of the SEC or my fellow commissioners.