Votes & Verdicts
Votes and Verdicts is a series that examines the intersection of business, policy and law. It features conversations between Bloomberg Intelligence's team of litigation and policy analysts and thought leaders discussing legal and policy issues affecting markets and business decisions across many sectors.
Episodes
The potential market impacts of the US midterm elections leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast, recorded on Oct. 22. Nathan Dean discusses that and explains how President Donald Trump will rely on deregulation and executive authority to advance his policy goals, affecting banks like JPMorgan, crypto companies like Coinbase, prediction markets like Kalshi, and retailers like Nike. Elliott St...
What is earned wage access and who should regulate it – the states or the federal government? Should it be regulated as a loan or something else, and why does that matter? How has the Trump administration approached this product and what is Congress doing about it? Kevin Lefton, global general counsel of Stream, one of the country’s leading earned wage access providers, joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Elliott Stein...
The future of the US mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is discussed in depth in this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast. BI's Ben Elliott speaks with Don Layton, former Freddie Mac CEO and JPMorgan vice chairman, about President Donald Trump’s push for a GSE stock offering and why such a transaction alone wouldn't constitute a meaningful exit from conservatorship. Layton exam...
Analysis of Anthropic’s litigation challenging its designation by the Department of War as a supply chain risk leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast, recorded on Oct. 1. Matt Schettenhelm discusses that and what the “White House Accord on Super Intelligence” means for companies like Alphabet, Meta, Nvidia and OpenAI. Nathan Dean examines recent Federal Reserve rules that s...
The legality of potential diesel export restrictions by the Trump administration leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast, recorded Sept. 24. BI’s Justin Teresi discusses the issue and Oracle’s possible invocation of force majeure protections related to a Blue Owl-backed data center in New Mexico. Matt Schettenhelm examines Snap’s exposure to social media addiction litigation...
The US Senate is considering legislation that would implement federal guidelines for colleges when it comes to governing student-athletes entering name, image, and likeness deals, cap fees for sports agents and create uniform eligibility and transfer rules. In this Sept. 17 episode of the Votes and Verdicts podcast, Chicago Atlantic Co-Head of Emerging Markets Peter Marber, Bloomberg Intelligence chief EM fixed-income strategist Da...
Prediction-markets litigation involving Kalshi, Robinhood and others has arrived at the Supreme Court’s doorstep. Elliott Stein’s analysis of that leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast, recorded on Sept. 10. He also shares his thoughts on litigation tied to President Donald Trump’s debanking claims against Capital One and lawsuits challenging New York City’s rent fre...
Gary Gensler, 33rd Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (2021-25), professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-host of the Power and Consequences podcast, joins a special crossover episode of Sustainability Currents and Votes and Verdicts to examine how the SEC can balance its three key mandates: investor protection, capital formation and fair, orderly and ...
The details and implications of Meta’s $18 billion dollar settlement in social-media addiction litigation on Aug. 26 led Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast on Aug. 27. We also discussed Abbott’s $670 million settlement on Aug. 20 in cases alleging its baby formula caused necrotizing enterocolitis and what it means for Reckitt’s Mead Johnson, which faces similar claims. The team also looked a...
A lawsuit filed by Disney to halt the FCC’s early TV license renewal review of Disney’s broadcast TV stations, as well as lawsuits that could potentially expose Meta to billions in settlements against cases involving social media addiction lead Bloomberg Intelligence’s latest Votes and Verdicts podcast. The discussion led by BI’s Nathan Dean also looks at how refiners such as PBF Energy, CVR Energy and HF Si...
The outlook for crypto legislation and rulemaking, with implications for Coinbase, Circle and others, leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts. We also discussed a CFPB open banking proposal and what it means for banks like JPMorgan and Bank of America as well as fintechs like Plaid. Elsewhere, Mead Johnson’s liability exposure will likely be clarified in the first federal test trial in lawsuits...
Nathan Dean’s analysis of the likelihood of a government shutdown and potential passage of a crypto bill - with implications for Coinbase, Circle and others - leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence's Votes and Verdicts podcast. He also discussed a proposed bill to impose sanctions on Russia and a bill to ease regulations for banks like Truist, Zions, PNC, Regions Financial and others. Matt Schettenhelm analyzed the FCC'...
Analysis of litigation challenging Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast. We also discuss why Meta’s request to the Ninth Circuit to put on hold an Aug. 18 social-media-addiction trial probably won’t succeed. Lastly, we look at the implications of Johnson & Johnson’s $5.5 billion settlement in litigat...
Corporate tax inversions once dominated international tax planning, prompting decades of congressional action and Treasury regulations with the result that we still had some of the largest cross-border mergers in history. Yet, despite the rollback of the last round of anti-inversion regulations in 2017, large US companies have largely stopped leaving the country. In this episode of Votes and Verdicts, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior ...
Senator Lindsey Graham’s passing makes some of US President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, particularly a reconciliation 3.0 package, harder. This episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes & Verdicts podcast centers on the implications of Graham’s death and the outlook of Apple’s suit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets. Elsewhere, an appeals court reinstated some of the plaintiffs’...
The settlement implications of a $1.4 trillion demand by states in an upcoming trial against Meta related to allegedly addictive features leads this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Votes and Verdicts podcast. We also discussed why Meta can cut $10 billion from a $22 billion IRS tax case in connection with IP offshoring. An NAACP lawsuit against SpaceX’s xAI unit seeks to shut down the gas turbines powering its Colos...
The November midterm elections, potential litigation challenging the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, and President Donald Trump’s ongoing bids to fire Federal Reserve Governors Jerome Powell and Lisa Cook are among key catalysts Bloomberg Intelligence policy and litigation analysts will be watching in 2H. In this episode of Votes and Verdicts, we also discuss crypto legislation to bring clarity for companies like Coi...
What is the Trump administration’s approach to Cuba? How does it differ from President Donald Trump’s first term? And what happens next in the short term and the longer term? Ricardo Herrero, executive director of the Cuba Study Group, joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Elliott Stein and Nathan Dean on this episode of the Votes and Verdicts podcast to discuss these and other related questions. Herrero also discusses t...
Bayer, facing tens of thousands of lawsuits over weedkiller Roundup, has set its sights on the Supreme Court. Dale Mullen, partner and co-chair of the business and corporate law section at Whiteford, joins Bloomberg Intelligence litigation analyst Holly Froum on this episode of the Votes and Verdicts podcast to discuss Bayer Monsanto’s appeal to the US Supreme Court of a $1.25 million verdict holding it liable for failing to ...
What are the impacts of the Trump administration’s rescheduling of state-licensed medical cannabis to Schedule III from Schedule I? Could federal rescheduling extend to recreational marijuana later this year? If so, how should companies, firms and operators prepare for a world where significant tax relief and growth opportunities emerge? Would Congress face pressure to consider a federal tax on the budding sector if broader c...
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