About

Markets Weekly is a weekly newsletter (currently on hiatus but sign up to stay tuned) by Alexis Goldstein, a technologist with experience in the federal government, the private sector, and nonprofits.

Alexis has worked in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since 2022, except when the CFPB illegally fired hundreds of its workers en masse in February 2025, un-fired everyone in March due to a court order, illegally fired them again in April, and un-fired them again in late April.

She is a former Wall Street professional who worked with global Equity Derivatives trading desks. She managed enhancements to proprietary trading and risk management tools used by thousands of traders and salespeople worldwide.

Alexis has appeared on many national news programs, including MSNBC's “All in with Chris Hayes” to discuss the stock market versus the real economy, and CNN to debate trade policy with Administration advisors. Her work was featured in PBS Frontline’s “Money, Power, and Wall Street” documentary. She has also appeared on Realtime with Bill Maher and in documentaries like the Netflix TV Series on Gamestop “Eat the Rich” and the film “The Divide” about income inequality.

Alexis has written extensively on financial topics, including pieces about the Gamestop phenomenon and the dangers of private family offices for the New York Times. She’s also written about the inequalities inherent in the government response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the Fed's tweaking of their emergency lending to benefit oil and gas firms, the lack of a focus on tracking evictions, and how fiscal and monetary policy during the pandemic has favored the markets over Main Street.