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CONFERENCE INFORMATION
AGENDA
9:00 AM | WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
DENNIS KELLEHER
Co-Founder, President and CEO, Better Markets
BIO
KATHRYN JUDGE
Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
BIO
JENNIFER TAUB
Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board
Professor of Law, Wayne State University
BIO
SIMON JOHNSON
Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board
Professor, Global Economics & Management, MIT
BIO
9:30 – 10:15 AM | OPENING KEYNOTE
CAROLINE CRENSHAW
Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
BIO
Q&A Moderated by
GINA-GAIL S. FLETCHER
Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
BIO
10:20 AM – 10:35 AM | CRYPTO’S POLITICAL ECONOMY
THOMAS FERGUSON
Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Boston
BIO
10:45 – 11:45 AM | PANEL DISCUSSION: What’s Next for the Federal Reserve
KATHRYN JUDGE
Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
BIO
SKANDA AMARNATH
Executive Director, Employ America
BIO
JEREMY KRESS
Associate Professor, Michigan Ross School of Business
Co-Faculty Director, University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy
BIO
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM | PRESENTATION OF RELATED MATERIALS
AMANDA FISCHER
Director of Policy & COO, Better Markets
BIO
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | BREAK FOR LUNCH
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | LUNCH DISCUSSION: Update on Congressional Activities
Republican and Democratic Staff Directors of the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee have been invited to present
Moderated by
TRAVIS HORR
Director of External Affairs, Better Markets
BIO
1:00 – 2:00 PM | KEYNOTE: Private Credit, Public Risk
ANTONIO WEISS
Former Counselor to the Secretary of the United States Treasury
Partner, SSW Partners, LP
BIO
MARK ZANDI
Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics
BIO
Q & A Moderated by
ADRIAN KEEVIL
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
BIO
2:00 – 3:00 PM | PANEL DISCUSSION: Financial Stability: Past, Present & Future
SIMON JOHNSON
Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board
Professor, Global Economics & Management, MIT
BIO
GERALD EPSTEIN
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute
BIO
ART WILMARTH
Professor Emeritus of Law, The George Washington University Law School
BIO
3:00 – 4:00 PM | PANEL DISCUSSION: Innovation and Distortion
JENNIFER TAUB
Co-Chair, Better Markets Academic Advisory Board
Professor of Law, Wayne State University
BIO
ANAT ADMATI
Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
BIO
HILARY ALLEN
Professor, Washington College of Law, American University
BIO
PATRICIA McCOY
Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
BIO
4:00 – 4:45 PM | CLOSING KEYNOTE
JARED BERNSTEIN
Former Chair, President’s Council of Economic Advisors
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
BIO
Q & A Moderated by
VICKI BOGAN
Professor, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy
BIO
4:45 – 5:00 PM | CLOSING REMARKS
RELEVANT MATERIALS
Books
“The Bankers’ New Clothes (New Edition): What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It” by Anat Admati (2024)
“Driverless Finance: Fintech’s Impact on Financial Stability” by Hilary Allen (2022)
“Power and Progress” by Simon Johnson (2023)
“13 Bankers” by Simon Johnson (2011)
“Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source” by Kathryn Judge (2022)
“Sharing Risk: The Path to Economic Well-Being for All” by Patricia McCoy (2025)
“Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime” by Jennifer Taub (2020)
“Other People’s Houses” by Jennifer Taub (2014)
“Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act” by Art Wilmarth (2020)
Op-Eds, Articles and Reports
“Carry on banking: Stanford professor laments post-crisis approach to bank regulation” article about Anat Admati, Bayes Business School
“Profitable Misconduct, Corporate Governance, and Law Enforcement” by Anat Admati, Stanford Law School
“Brave New World” by Hilary Allen, Briefing Book substack
“Fintech and Techno-Solutionism” by Hilary Allen, Southern California Law Review
“How Congress Can Stop the Looming Crypto Disaster” by Hilary Allen, Just Security
“Regulatory Sandboxes: One Decade On” by Hilary Allen, American University Washington College of Law
“Tech does not deserve special legal treatment” by Hilary Allen, Financial Times
“Why We Need to Stop Subsidizing Venture Capitalists” by Hilary Allen, Law & Political Economy Project
“Interview: Crypto, the Financial System, and Trump” Dollars & Sense with Gerald Epstein
“Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Single Payer Insurance to the Rescue” by Thomas Ferguson, Institute for New Economic Thinking
“U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.” by Thomas Ferguson, Institute for New Economic Thinking
“The crypto crises are coming” The Gleaner, by Simon Johnson
“The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment” Edited by Simon Johnson, essays by Simon Johnson and Lev Menand, Centre for Economic Policy Research
“The Senate’s stablecoin bill risks repeating past legislative mistakes” American Banker, by Simon Johnson
“How the Supreme Court Could Threaten Fed Independence” by Kathryn Judge and Lev Menand, Bloomberg
“Basel endgame: Bank capital requirements and the future of international standard setting” by Jeremy Kress, Centre for Economic Policy Research
“No, a ‘shot clock’ won’t improve the bank merger approval process” by Jeremy Kress, American Banker
“Congress Must Reject the GENIUS Act and Remove the Dangers Posed by Nonbank Stablecoins” by Art Wilmarth, Open Banker
“The Dangers of the Current ‘Global Deregulatory Drive’ in Financial Regulation: Written Testimony Submitted to the UK House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee” by Art Wilmarth, George Washington University Law School
“The Looming Threat of Uninsured Nonbank Stablecoins” by Art Wilmarth, George Washington University Law School
Other
“Fintech Dystopia,” a digital series by Hilary Allen
“SEC Crypto Task Force Roundtable – Tokenization: Moving Assets Onchain: Where TradFi and DeFi Meet” with Hilary Allen
“AI’s role in human productivity and prosperity” Marketplace podcast with Simon Johnson
Better Markets Materials
Report: Trump’s Deregulation of Wall Street Is Going to Economically Crush Main Street Americans
Report: $20+ Trillion and Counting: The Cost of the Wall Street Caused Financial Crisis
Substack: Voters Do Not Support Crypto’s Congressional Agenda
Fact Sheet: Having Won Almost 100% of Its Cases Against the Crypto Industry, the SEC Baselessly Surrenders
