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Arthur Levitt

(1931) Journalist

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Arthur Levitt is a journalist.

Quick Facts About Arthur Levitt

Born: February 3, 1931
Profession: Journalist

About Arthur Levitt

[Wikidata] American businessman, journalist and 25th SEC chairman... | [Wikipedia] Arthur Levitt Jr. is the former chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He served from 1993 to 2001 as the twenty-fifth and longest-serving chairman of the commission. Widely hailed as a champion of the individual investor, he has been criticized for not pushing for t

Quotes by Arthur Levitt

Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.

Challenges

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Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting…

Allow

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The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Between

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It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S.…

Benefit

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Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working…

Achieved

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What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

Greater

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Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

Competition

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Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder…

Again

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