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July 17, 2025

Crypto Lending Poses Huge Risks for Retail Investors

Introduction On July 13, 2022, crypto lender Celsius Network filed for bankruptcy. Celsius’s business took crypto deposits from retail customers and used them to invest in the crypto market. Celsius…

Fact Sheets

July 14, 2025

Buyers’ Remorse? Key Questions to Consider in Crypto Legislation

This week, Congress will consider legislation that would enact a new light-touch trading framework at the behest of crypto trading firms. Anyone evaluating the merits of the bill should ask the below…

Fact Sheets

July 11, 2025

Stopping Gambling on U.S. Elections

Through the media, opinion pieces, comment letters, direct engagement, and coalition building the Better Markers team has expressed our deep concerns over allowing gambling on U.S. elections and the potential threat to…

Derivatives

June 13, 2025

Standing up to the Lawless Crypto Industry

For years now, too many leaders on Wall Street and Washington either looked the other way or unquestioningly supported the crypto industry as it worked relentlessly to infiltrate our financial system…

Consumer Protection

June 04, 2025

Private Market Assets Do Not Belong in 401(k)s

Introduction Everything we’ve been told about pension fund investments in the private markets is wrong. That is the inescapable conclusion from recent research analyzing how pension funds have fared by increasing their…

Fact Sheets

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May 16, 2025

Don’t Be a Dummy: GENIUS Act Changes Fail to Make a Bad Bill Better

The latest draft of the GENIUS Act—a Senate bill to create a light-touch regulatory framework for crypto assets known as “stablecoins” and dangerously inject those stablecoins into our wider banking system—fails to…

Fact Sheets

May 07, 2025

Stablecoin Legislation: Why Nothing is Better Than Something

The guide to whether a policymaker should vote for a piece of legislation should be the axiom from the Greek philosopher Hippocrates: “first, do no harm.” Legislation can never be perfect, but…

Fact Sheets

May 06, 2025

The GENIUS Act: Allowing Big Tech to Control Our Money

By American Economic Liberties Project and Better Markets Senate Legislation Majority Leader Thune indicated that the Senate plans to have a procedural vote on Thursday to advance a cryptocurrency bill called the…

Fact Sheets

April 15, 2025

Better Markets’ Work Addressing Racial Economic Inequality in Finance

We continue to see the structural inequalities embedded in our economic system, particularly the racial inequalities that have gone on for far too long and are too well-known by many of our…

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