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#SEC: And climatology. Richard Epstein, Hoover

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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#SEC: And climatology. Richard Epstein, Hoover
https://www.hoover.org/research/secs-pointless-climate-disclosures


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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batson. I read from a document

0:29.3

the Securities Exchange Commission most recently, 2022. We are proposing,

0:35.2

said the SEC, to require registrants to provide certain climate-related information

0:42.0

in their registration statements and annual reports, including certain information about climate

0:47.3

related financial risks and climate-related financial metrics in their financial statements.

0:53.6

The disclosure of this information would provide consistent, comparable, and reliable.

0:59.3

And therefore, decision-useful information to investors to enable them to make informed

1:05.4

decisions about the impact of climate-related risks on current and potential investments.

1:12.7

I welcome Professor Richard Epstein, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution,

1:17.8

teaches law at NYU in the University of Chicago. Writing most recently at defining ideas,

1:23.3

I welcome everyone to read it. It's at the Hoover site about the SEC's proposed climate-related

1:31.2

authorization. Richard, a very good evening to you. Your remarks about this,

1:37.2

taking me to a case that I very much enjoyed reading about, 1889, Derry Versus Peak. This is about

1:44.9

a company that boasted it had the right to use steam or mechanical mode of power instead of

1:51.6

horses on a part of the public transportation route. That was a false claim. How does that inform

2:00.0

the climate-related regulation the SEC is proposing? Good evening to you.

2:06.6

Well, the first thing we have to figure out is what is it that the SEC is supposed to be doing?

2:11.8

And the general reason why this commission has survived better than some of the other Roosevelt

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