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Dennis Kelleher

Dennis Kelleher

Co-founder, President and CEO of Better Markets, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit advocacy organization fighting for financial regulatory reform.

Jul 11, 2026

6:39
Yes.
6:40
And then, uh, to pass it along to both use it today as if it was cash and income, um, not be taxed on it, use it, and then hand it off through inheritance, uh, without being touched to heirs for multigenerational wealth concentration at the top.
6:56
Bad for the economy and bad for democracy.
6:59
Um, a lot of people have a lot of ideas.
7:02
I mean, you have talked to Ro Khanna, and there's all sorts of people with different ideas about what to do in terms of, we've got a wealth tax on the ballot in California.
7:10
But in terms of the structural drivers, one of the problems that we see at Better Markets is that people don't actually p- And when I say people, I mean Democrats, uh, don't pay enough attention to the financial structural drivers of the economy.
7:22
So here's just a simple example that people are often surprised by.

41 MINS LATER

47:57
But still, uh, where's the financial side of that?

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