Ex-SEC Chair Gary Gensler Makes His Return to MIT
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Thrown out of the SEC, Gary Gensler did not take long to find a soft landing. Far from disappearing from the financial landscape, he resumes his position as a professor at MIT, where he will teach and co-direct a program combining finance and artificial intelligence. A logical career shift? Not so sure. Before waging war on cryptos as a regulator, Gensler explained to his students that most digital assets were not financial securities. A great contradiction that does not go unnoticed in the crypto ecosystem.
Gensler and crypto: a confusing double talk
From 2018 to 2021,…