Gensler: From Hamilton to Yellen

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Thank you for the kind introduction. As is customary, I’d like to note that I’m not speaking on behalf of my fellow Commissioners or the SEC staff. I’m honored to be speaking with you today following Secretary Yellen, under whose leadership we are in the midst of much needed reforms of our Treasury market. I think our nation’s first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, would tip his tricorn hat to his 77th successor, for focusing on the efficiency and resiliency of the Treasury market. A couple hundred years before he became a Broadway star, in 1790, Hamilton told Congress that “the proper funding of the ... (full story)