james sweeney, credit suisse chief economist. will be catching up with the sec chair gary gensler. we will do that live on tv and radio starting in about 20 minutes. looking forward to the chat. tom: gary gensler, even people who may be political within the left or right are removed from his theories, they have an immense respect for his intellect. these guys come in all different flavors and i say this with great respect for arthur 11 of the bloomberg board, appearing with us on radio. arthur levitt has style. the individual investor. we do not know what gary gensler style is. jonathan: the individual investor has stayed a lot since arthur levitt's day. tom: he is up in connecticut with a laptop trading gamestop. jonathan: he is not. a lot of people are. lisa: the question is the democracy of the market. is this a good thing or a bad thing? how they deal with the meme stock phenomenon if people are not crying about it? who is losing on the others. jonathan: the first line of the mission of the sec chair, to meet our mission of p

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