{"id":1274,"date":"2024-07-08T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlj.colorado.edu\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:12:41","slug":"consumer-protection-and-investment-crowdfunding-comments-at-the-future-of-startup-finance-a-symposium-on-investment-crowdfunding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlj.colorado.edu\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Protection and Investment Crowdfunding: Comments at the Future of Startup Finance: A Symposium on \u201cInvestment Crowdfunding\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Excerpt<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My background is in consumer protection. I\u2019ve worked at the Federal Trade Commission. I worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (\u201cCFPB\u201d). And so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to talk about in my lens here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This is a great book. This is a really powerful, great book. I just want to make that really clear, and I mean that from somebody coming at it from a consumer protection perspective. This is not just a book about investment crowdfunding. This is maybe the best book I\u2019ve read so far on just how to think about consumer protection in the internet age. Because of the way Schwartz focuses on private ordering, and on different ways of transmitting information, this book is a model for thinking about the whole economy and consumer protection regulation\u2014from occupational licensing to you name it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><strong>Link to Full Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Document\" style=\"text-indent: 0in; text-align: center;\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ctlj.colorado.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/FINAL_05.25.24_Zywicki_Consumer-Protection-and-Investment-Crowdfunding.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Consumer Protection and Investment Crowdfunding: Comments at the Future of Startup Finance: A Symposium on \u201cInvestment Crowdfunding\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt My background is in consumer protection. 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