SEC co-director of enforcement Stephanie Avakian delivered a speech in Dallas last week defending the agency’s enforcement record, as the number of cases brought and amount of fines collected both continue to drop.
Read more...How Britain’s system of offshore finance and tax havens developed and preserved the UK’s role as the largest player in international finance.
Read more...Derivatives remain an untamed systemic risk.
Read more...Medical bills are so out of hand that despite the power of the health industry lobbyists, some Senators are taking on the worst abuses.
Read more...Why you should take conventional wisdom about the Lehman collapse and the crisis with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Follow the subsidies, and you will understand why we had the crisis and why not enough has been done to prevent a recurrence.
Read more...An in-depth look at Marriner Eccles’ ideas and policies, and how well they have withstood the test of time.
Read more...Has anything changed on the Brexit front?
Read more...Looking at the costs of and some possible responses to regulatory capture.
Read more...The WSJ reported Monday that state AGs, who include many Republicans, are poised to step up enforcement against big tech. Interesting times may lie ahead.
Read more...Surveys indicate that consumers are souring on the ubiquitous use of plastic packaging– at least in the UK. Yet these shifts alone won’t be sufficient to address the problem. Governments must up their regulatory game, and global action is necessary.
Read more...The chief architects of the exercise in looting otherwise known as the post-crisis rescues are back promoting more of the same.
Read more...In their 21st-century role as counterparty/dealer/insurer of last resort, central bankers must not simply use their balance sheets indiscriminately to provide a liquidity backstop during the downturns. They must embrace this counterparty role as an umpire, rather than an enabler.
Read more...Understanding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s potential impact on corporate regulation and the climate means looking back all the way to 1890, to the era of Lochner v. New York and the robber barons.
Read more...Second Circuit last week narrowed the reach of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but will not redirect the DoJ to focus on enforcement of more significant violations that occur closer to home.
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