Author Archives: Lee Reiners

Duke Eviction Prevention Working Group Follow-up Letter to North Carolina Leaders

By | May 12, 2021

The following is a copy of a letter was recently sent to North Carolina Governor, Roy Cooper; North Carolina Senate President Pro Tempore, Phil Berger; and North Carolina House Speaker, Tim Moore. This letter is written to you on behalf of the Eviction Prevention Working Group.  The Working Group was formed under the sponsorship of the… Read More »

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Restoring Order in Crypto’s Wild West

By | April 6, 2021

Last week marked another milestone in the evolution of cryptocurrency. Visa announced they would let USD Coin, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, settle on its payment network, and PayPal launched “Checkout with Crypto,” a service that allows customers to pay with cryptocurrency at checkout. These moves represent the latest brick to be removed… Read More »

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Duke Eviction Prevention Working Group Letter to North Carolina Leaders

By | February 25, 2021

The following is a copy of a letter was recently sent to North Carolina Governor, Roy Cooper; North Carolina Senate President Pro Tempore, Phil Berger; and North Carolina House Speaker, Tim Moore. This letter is written to you on behalf of the Eviction Prevention Working Group.  The Working Group was formed under the sponsorship of… Read More »

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Beware of the Bitcoin Balance Sheet

By | February 24, 2021

Tesla made news earlier this month when the release of their 2020 annual report revealed the firm had purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin and would begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for their “products in the near future.” Following this revelation, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk tweeted:  “Having some Bitcoin, which is simply a… Read More »

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From Laggard to Leader: Updating the Securities Regulatory Framework to Better Meet the Needs of Investors and Society

By | February 23, 2021

The following is the executive summary of a just released report from the Global Financial Markets Center titled: “From Laggard to Leader: Updating the Securities Regulatory Framework to Better Meet the Needs of Investors and Society.” The full report can be accessed here. Climate change, systemic racism, and unprecedented income and wealth inequality pose direct… Read More »

The Pandemic Relief Bill and the Battle Over Federal Reserve Emergency Lending Authority

By | December 21, 2020

Negotiations over the just-released $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill got bogged down over the weekend due to the seemingly arcane matter of Federal Reserve emergency lending authority. For the millions of Americans who are in desperate need of financial assistance, this delay was unnecessary and needlessly cruel. Nor were frenzied negotiations around pandemic relief legislation… Read More »

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Policy Options for Preventing an Eviction Crisis

By | December 16, 2020

There have been several federal and state eviction moratoria since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. The current binding eviction moratorium is the CDC’s, which was implemented on September 1, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2020. This moratorium was implemented as a public health measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.  Tenants… Read More »

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Recent Announcements Reveal Financial Regulators are Serious about Climate Change

By | November 16, 2020

Several major announcements over the past two weeks indicate U.S. financial regulators are finally starting to take climate change seriously. The timing is no coincidence. The election of Joe Biden as our next president freed financial regulators from facing the wrath of President Trump and his acolytes for simply acknowledging that climate change is real.… Read More »

Climate Risk Disclosures & Practices: Highlighting the Need for a Standardized Regulatory Disclosure Framework to Weather the Impacts of Climate Change on Financial Markets

By | October 19, 2020

The following is the executive summary of a new report from the Climate Risk Disclosure Lab that highlights the need for a thorough, robust, and mandatory disclosure framework for climate-related information. The report exposes the failure of U.S. regulators to properly incorporate climate change into their mandates and assesses the threats that the vacuum of… Read More »

The Heat Is On: U.S. Regulators Facing Increasing Pressure to Enhance Climate Disclosures

By | October 13, 2020

Hurricane Delta’s landfall in Louisiana last week marked the tenth named storm to hit the United States this year, breaking the record set in 1916. Records, of the ignominious sort, have also been set on the West Coast. California has experienced six of its twenty largest wildfires this year, and on August 16th, Death Valley… Read More »