In November 2006, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a group of academics and market specialists, issued its interim report, the first research report on the apparent migration of public offerings by international companies from the United States to London and other overseas markets. The interim report analyzed the causes...

On April 5, 2012, the President signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which passed by a large bipartisan majority in the Congress. The Act is designed to facilitate the equity funding of new companies. Recent research has documented that from 1980 through the 2008-09 recession new companies have been main drivers of job creation in the United States. 

A new report outlines fifty-seven specific recommendations for restructuring financial regulation.

Longstanding policies that were intended to promote confidence in the independence of regulatory decision-making have now been wiped away by the Dodd-Frank act, which has in effect placed all the financial regulators under the direction of the Treasury secretary.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance, and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among...

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The Eurozone Crisis: A Roadmap for Urgent and Decisive ActionWhile European leaders have been meeting in Brussels to address the crisis in the eurozone,...

As co-authors of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America,we strongly recommend that the Affordable Care Act of 2010 should be repealed and replaced as soon as possible.