Follow the Lobbying Money. How Crypto Legislation Actually Gets Prioritized | Trust Issues 008
Welcome to Trust Issues--
Alex and Emily cover the Fed's decision to hold rates, then dig into how the Clarity Act got renamed the Market Structure bill and what that rebrand is hiding.
The real meat: a breakdown of how campaign finance and lobbying shape which bills get prioritized and who sits on the committees that write them. French Hill gets named. Coinbase and a16z get named. The machinery behind how legislation actually moves is not a secret, but nobody talks about it plainly enough.
Emily and Alex announce the Trust Issues Book Club discussion of The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de…
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