It’s been a long two years at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for Commissioner Hester Peirce. She’s had to deal with an SEC Chair whose agenda she has openly disagreed with and a 117th Congress dominated by Democrats who were mostly loathe to reproach the Chair, a Biden-appointee. On top of all that, Peirce is entering her 5th year on the Commission – the longest tenure of any current member. Time to get busy? Last Friday she did. With the dawn of a new Congress and a Republican majority in the House, Peirce took the gloves off by delivering a 5,400-word keynote address at a Duke University crypto ... (full story)