New Hollywood blockbuster depicts a triumph for savvy retail investors but it’s just the beginning

Sept. 20, Christina Sautter, professor of law at Dedman School of Law, SMU Dallas, along with co-author Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci (University of Missouri KC), for a piece advocating for retail investors and encouraging them to use their influence by voting their stock. Published in Fox Business under the heading New Hollywood blockbuster depicts a triumph for savvy retail investors but it’s just the beginning: https://tinyurl.com/yx2hb73p

When you watch the movie “Dumb Money,” you realize people now have the unprecedented power to take back the corporate sector. The movie, which opened nationwide Sept. 15, ends with a clear statement: the movement to take on Wall Street has just begun. But the power of the movement goes much further.

The film takes its name from Wall Street’s belittling term for retail investors, who do not have the resources to analyze stocks as do institutional investors. There is nothing dumb about investing money in company shares and then exercising the additional benefit of voting those shares via proxy. That amounts to a retail investor superpower.

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Legislature can stop an injustice by redefining what constitutes ‘organized retail theft’

May 12, Michael Braun, Cox School of Business for a piece outlining an injustice in the Texas Penal Code regarding Organized Retail Theft, in the Austin American-Statesman: https://www.statesman.com/opinion/20190513/commentary-legislature-can-stop-injustice-by-redefining-what-constitutes-organized-retail-theft

 

Maybe bots are bad guys – but first convince the courts.

Oct. 13, Jared Schroeder, J-School, in Austin American-Statesman for https://www.statesman.com/opinion/Austin American-Statesman/commentary-maybe-bots-are-bad-guys—but-first-convince-courts

What happens in California doesn’t always stay in California, and that’s why Texans tracking the disruption of bots and other non-humans ought to be concerned that California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last week that criminalizes using unlabeled bots for political gain. The law is also almost certainly unconstitutional. Yes, the law addresses a problem regarding the influence of AI (artificial intelligence) actors and the misleading information they often carry. Yes, the law is worded to avoid halting all AI expression; it merely requires that AI disclose that they are bots.

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