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Every once in a while, something weird happens with the SEC’s website or email distribution system, and last night was one of those nights. Announcements started rolling out that had first been issued around the “turn of the century” – one update assuring us that the SEC was prepared for Y2K and another announcing that (long-former) SEC Chair Arthur Levitt would speak at a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa. Briefly, the dates on the announcements had somehow been rolled forward to present / future-day. The error was quickly fixed, but not before I took a little stroll down memory lane.

Fun fact: I just so happened to live in the Des Moines area in the late ’90s when Chair Levitt’s visit actually occurred. Unfortunately, I missed the town hall. I am not sure I had heard of “securities law” at that point, and likely was more focused on my next high school basketball game or reader’s theater performance than on the state of our capital markets…

Did those emails make anyone else nostalgic for simpler times? Or maybe, like me, you now have this Prince song stuck in your head. I wouldn’t complain if the SEC distro lists started sprinkling in more time machine emails.

– Liz Dunshee