#Lawyers fight back following attack on SPACs

#Lawyers fight back following attack on SPACs

“#Lawyers fight back following attack on SPACs” The nation’s top law firms are clapping back against an explosive lawsuit filed last week that argues so-called special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, should be regulated as investment vehicles. In a letter released Friday, 49 of the most prestigious law firms in the US came to the defense…

Read More
#Antivaxxers become social outcasts on Wall Street

#Antivaxxers become social outcasts on Wall Street

“#Antivaxxers become social outcasts on Wall Street” As Wall Street scrambles to find safe ways to return its bankers to the office as the Delta variant surges, some financiers have found a scapegoat for the mess: the unvaccinated. “Most employees on Wall Street want vaccine mandates for anyone returning to the office,” Kathryn Wylde, president…

Read More
#Growing political roadblock vs. big spender Joe Biden

#Growing political roadblock vs. big spender Joe Biden

“#Growing political roadblock vs. big spender Joe Biden” As the debacle in Afghanistan consumes the Biden administration, Wall Street is keeping a closer eye on another debacle: that is, the president’s ambitions to turn the US into a European-style progressive paradise.  It’s not that Biden and his acolytes in Congress and appointees to various regulatory…

Read More
# Wells Fargo files for Bitcoin fund

# Wells Fargo files for Bitcoin fund

“# Wells Fargo files for Bitcoin fund ” Wells Fargo – one of the oldest banks in the United States – has registered a new, pooled investment fund that offers its wealthy clients indirect exposure to Bitcoin (BTC). Fargo’s filing of a “Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities” — also known as a Form D…

Read More
#Ambitious SEC boss Gensler cultivates Sen. Elizabeth Warren

#Ambitious SEC boss Gensler cultivates Sen. Elizabeth Warren

“#Ambitious SEC boss Gensler cultivates Sen. Elizabeth Warren” If Gary Gensler sounds a lot like Elizabeth Warren, it’s not by accident but by design. He needs the powerful progressive senator in his corner to fulfill his ultimate, career-fulfilling goal, which, according to sources, is having his signature on the dollar bill as treasury secretary.  Gensler…

Read More
#Citigroup requiring COVID vaccines for returning staffers

#Citigroup requiring COVID vaccines for returning staffers

“#Citigroup requiring COVID vaccines for returning staffers” Citigroup is requiring its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus before stepping foot inside any of its major offices. In a memo to its staff on Tuesday, the Big Apple bank run by CEO Jane Fraser told employees that they must be fully vaccinated before taking part…

Read More