Last year's repeal of the final remaining vestige of Regulation Q, the prohibition of payment of interest on business demand deposits, at long last completed a pro-competitive process which began with the Monetary Control Act of 1980.  The repeal was and is a good idea.  We can easily see this by asking and answering half a dozen simple questions, to make the matter clear.

How can the United States continue to cooperate with the military while strengthening Pakistan’s fledgling democracy?  What does the future hold for civil-military relations in the nuclear-armed country? A panel of experts will discuss these important questions.

Rep. Ron Paul is in a dead heat with Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses. If he does pull out a win on Tuesday, Iowa Republicans will have chosen as their commander in chief a man who says it was wrong to kill Osama bin Laden.

The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve the quality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have ―skin in the game.

For any housing finance reform plan to be credible, it must do much more than wind down the GSEs. Because of the Dodd-Frank Act a number of formidable legal obstacles now exist that must be cleared away before a private securitization market will come back. If the administration is serious, its plan must address all these issues.

The Dodd-Frank Act required the FDIC to change how it assesses banks for deposit insurance. FDIC’s final rule implementing that mandate went into effect on April 1, 2011.

In the debt-limit negotiations, Mitch McConnell's plan might be the least bad of the currently possible options. But what's particularly frustrating is how McConnell is selling his proposal.

Kim Jong-il's death perforce marks a turning point in modern Korean history. Not since Douglas MacArthur’s push toward the Yalu has the future of the North Korean regime been as uncertain as it is today.