Paul S. Atkins is the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This post is based on his recent statement. The views expressed in the post are those of Chairman Atkins and do not necessarily reflect those of the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. And thank you, Fred [Ryan], for your generous introduction. Before I begin, I should like to take a moment to recognize what a profound privilege it is for me to address the Reagan National Economic Forum.
Prior to sharing a few reflections, I must note that the views I express here today are my own as SEC Chairman and do not necessarily reflect those of the SEC as an institution or of my fellow Commissioners.
There is something quite fitting about gathering on a California morning such as this one, because it calls to mind a few of President Reagan’s most enduring words: “Morning in America.” And nowhere are those words more at home than here — in this library, a fixed monument to a free-market legacy. At its opening ceremony in 1991, President Reagan articulated his hope that the library would become “a dynamic intellectual forum where scholars interpret the past and policymakers debate the future.”[1] Today, I believe that we are proving that his hope was well placed.
