Senate’s Crypto Circus: Meet Paul Atkins, Your New SEC Ringmaster! 😲
Atkins, who once had a front-row seat to the regulatory circus as an SEC commissioner from 2002 to 2008, is now being ushered into a spotlight that some might call ironic given his previous run-in with the madness of market manipulation. In an announcement that felt more like casting for a financially thrilling reality show than a bureaucratic decision, President Trump praised Atkins with the kind of hyperbolic enthusiasm usually reserved for late-night infomercials. One imagines Trump extolling Atkins’s virtues as if he were the long-lost hero of capital markets—complete with lavish promises and minimal details. 😏