Dr. Michael Piwowar first worked for the SEC as a visiting scholar from Iowa State University and in 2002; he joined the SEC in the commission's office of economic analysis.In 2013 he was appointed to the commission by President Obama after having served as chief economist for the Senate Banking Committee and he was designated Acting Chairman of the Commission from January to May 2017. In July of this year he stepped down and ended his long career and term of service to the SEC where he worked on a number of important oversight issues such as investor protection, market structure, and capital formation.This week on a Closer Look, Dr. Michael Piwowar discusses corporate bond liquidity, bond markets, regulation and transparency.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Chairman Jay Clayton began his career as a clerk for the Honorable Marvin Katz of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then joined the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell where he advised market participants on capital raising and regulatory enforcement, until 2017, when he was nominated to chair the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Host: Arthur Levitt See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re Raising the Standard of Conduct for Broker-Dealers

Eva Moskowitz was born in NYC and graduated from Stuyvesant High School. From 1999 to 2005 she served on the New York City council, chairing the education committee. And in 2006 she founded her first charter school, Harlem Success Academy. Today, the Success Academy network is the largest and best-performing public charter school network in New York City with 47 schools serving 17,000 students. Host: Arthur Levitt See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We Continue to Underestimate Children

This is a Closer Look at Vince Houghton, intelligence historian, US Army Vet and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. Houghton Joins former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt to talk about his new book, “Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes And Military Plots Left On The Drawing Board.” The book looks at covert projects and technology from WWII to through the Cold War that were seriously considered, but didn’t make the grade. Some were ultimately deemed too risky, expensive, dangerous, ahead of their time—or even certifiably insane. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We Also Know There Are Other Dimensions of Transparency

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