Justin Slaughter
@JBSDC
VP, Regulatory Affairs @paradigm. Prev. Senior Adviser @secgov & Chief Policy Adviser @cftc. Alum of @NRDems, & @SenMarkey. Carbon-based.
“Who is the crypto user?” This was the question we have been grappling with recently, culminating in our release today of the first major market mapping survey of crypto users. Spoiler: crypto owners are more diverse in their views, interests, & beliefs than even I expected. 🧵
Just “liberalism.” It’s cleaner.
The way that Teachout's terrible NYT op-ed was aggressively mocked, the disappearance of MMT, the YIMBY's understanding deeply the costs of regulation, tariffs losing all support on the left... It feels to me neoliberalism is gaining steam on the left
With the House passing the CLARITY Act, Noble Co-Founder and CEO Jelena Djuric believes this is a once in a generational opportunity to transform payments bit.ly/4m7e1cI
I always feel like the anti-monopoly crowd focuses way too much on Big Tech and Boeing, and not nearly enough on private equity consolidating small businesses and practices.
Virtually all physician practice acquisitions fall below the threshold for mandatory antitrust review. Thus hospitals, private equity, and even insurers are able to consolidate physicians, gaining market power in local markets to extract higher rates. axios.com/2025/07/21/hos…
Overall, it’s a good bill, especially if your primary complaint about CLARITY was the lack of SEC disclosures. The biggest issue with the bill is that it’s missing its” other half:” the CFTC regulations. For that, we have to wait for an Agriculture Committee discussion draft.…
35 pages only. Well this will be a fast analysis. I’ll just hit the highlights.
One of the coolest projects in tech, bar none is @nudge. Very glad to see @FEhrsam and team focusing on one of the problems that is truly universal in nature: all of us will, over time, have a friend or family member suffer a significant disorder of the brain. This is a step…
Half the world will experience a brain disorder in their lifetime. At @nudge, we're building brain interfaces that are safe, precise, and non-invasive to solve that problem. We've raised a $100M Series A led by @ThriveCapital and Greenoaks to go faster. We're hiring. Join us.