Don't Trust and Verify

Micheal Lewis' "Big Short" is out and, as expected, it's a great read. He tells the story of a few traders that saw the i...

The proponents of the transaction tax claim it will raise $150 billion dollars based on their math. Of course, if their proposal could be r...

Surprise! Nancy Pelosi has convinced Tim Geithner that ending the U.S. co-leadership in financial markets is good for the economy. In a rela...

The Nobel Prize winning New Keynesian, cheerleader of government intervention, Paul Krugman, wrote in 2002, "To fight this recession, t...

Congress, the Fed, and both the Bush and Obama administrations all blamed the housing bubble and accompanying financial meltdown on failings...

Treasury's solution to the gridlock caused by deregulation of the giant financial companies is to let the giant financial companies writ...

The world economy has changed but our government's regulation of it has not adapted. The world has become so interwoven that what used ...