Chairman Paul Atkins on Restoring America’s Capital Markets

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🗓️ 7 December 2025

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Over the past decade, U.S. capital markets have changed— and not for the better.Far fewer companies are choosing to go public. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins joins the show to break down what he sees as the growing regulatory barriers facing businesses, the impact of politicized rule-making, and the rising pressure from activist shareholder movements. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. - - - Wake up with new Morning Wire merch:⁠ https://bit.ly/4lIubt3⁠ - - - Today’s Sponsor: Balance of Nature: Go to https://balanceofnature.com/pages/podcasters for 50% off the Whole Health System FOR LIFE with this limited-time offer! - - - Privacy Policy:⁠ https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.9	In a speech before the New York Stock Exchange this week, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins slammed the Biden
1:28.9	administration for using financial rules as a political weapon. While sporting a bright red,
1:33.7	make IPO's Great Again hat, Atkins promised to return to what he called America's Hamiltonian
1:39.6	dynamism, and to bring an end to the mountains of ESG disclosures and red tape that have throttled innovation
1:45.6	and driven companies overseas.
1:48.0	The question before us is not whether our entrepreneurs have the capacity to reinvent
1:54.3	and reinvigorate our capital markets, but whether we as regulators have the will. In this new day, the SEC, and under President Trump's
2:04.9	leadership, I am pleased to report that we do. In this episode, we sit down with Chairman
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