Lurian@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoSenator Gillibrand's son graduated on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchangefortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSenator Gillibrand's son graduated on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchangefortune.comLurian@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-text
How frequent is this? His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture —which has jurisdiction over derivates — until this past year
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days ago there any actual concerns on legality going on here? Yes: many of us are concerned (or fucking furious) about the fact that none of this obviously awful bullshit is even illegal. Would be nice to see some more regulation here, but this sounds perfectly legal. That’s the main problem, yes.
Yes: many of us are concerned (or fucking furious) about the fact that none of this obviously awful bullshit is even illegal.
That’s the main problem, yes.