Votes & Verdicts

How will the prosecution of former President Donald Trump play out? What are the strengths of the indictment? What defenses can we expect? Daniel Horwitz, partner and chair of the litigation department and white-collar defense and investigation practice at McLaughlin & Stern, joins Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Elliott Stein and Nathan Dean on this episode of the Votes and Verdicts podcast t...

Jason Gottlieb, Partner and Chair of the digital assets practice at Morrison Cohen, discusses the future of crypto policy and law in depth with Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Elliott Stein and Nathan Dean, on this episode of the Votes and Verdicts podcast, including the paradigm shift that SEC Chair Gary Gensler is missing, and the type of legislation he’d like to see passed. Gottlieb also talks...

Regulation of PFAS, known as the “Forever Chemicals,” is coming fast to the US, yet huge questions remain about the potentially massive costs of regulation and what effect rules would have on the regulated community. In this Votes & Verdicts podcast, leading remediation expert Jim Claffey, Ph. D., P.E., of Brown and Caldwell, an environmental consulting and engineering firm, joins Bloomberg In...

How should regulators address the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the regional bank crisis? For one, they need to change the way they look at liquidity by factoring in the amount of uninsured deposits that sit on banks’ balance sheets. That will help regulators better understand the risk of a deposit flight like the one that felled SVB, Bloomberg Intelligence’s regional banks analyst Herman Ch...

The Federal Trade Commission’s approach to assessing the potential antitrust implications of transactions is evolving and expanding, particularly with respect to the analysis of deals that involve companies that are potential or nascent competitors. The agency has also erected hurdles that make it increasingly difficult for merging companies to navigate their way through the antitrust process and...

Regulation of technology platforms is coming fast to the US and EU, yet huge questions remain about how and when, with heightened scrutiny of tech companies possibly becoming the norm over the coming years, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Votes and Verdicts podcast episode, BI analysts Tamlin Bason and Matthew Schettenhelm tackle the biggest questions about tech regulation in the US a...

Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Brandon Barnes hosts energy sell-side veteran Timm Schneider for a discussion of the opportunities and risks being generated by federal policymakers for energy infrastructure, including carbon capture, low-carbon fuel standards, export bans, and tax changes. Schneider tells us how traditional energy companies are finding new opportunities in the current policy enviro...

Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Elliott Stein and Nathan Dean host former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney for a discussion of the future of crypto regulation, litigation challenging the CFPB’s constitutionality, the debt ceiling and ESG. Along the way, Mulvaney also talks about his favorite job in Washington and what music he would want if stranded on a desert island. See...