Forces allied to the former Gadhafi regime could still threaten a fragile new government using guerilla and terrorist tactics. It would be a mistake to underestimate his tenacity or to dismiss the warning of his son Seif that "We will fight to our very last man, woman, and bullet."

Rapid growth in the P2P industry has given rise to concerns over appropriate regulation of this alternative form of lending.

Friedrich Hayek, the famous free-market critic of central planning, were he alive today, would have the same views as US conservatives about ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank Act.

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe does not recognize any African authority.

A full-fledged international role for the yuan, as a store of value as well as a medium of exchange and unit of account, is highly unlikely in the near term.

The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in the fall of 2008 threw a sharp and critical light on the inadequacies of the world's system for resolving insolvent, globally active financial institutions; a debtor-selection system could ameliorate many of these inadequacies.

A no-bailout policy is the only regulation hedge funds need.

France's counterterrorism efforts are the most effective in the world. The United States would do well to adopt some of France's strategies.