The SEC should revoke its requirement that Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations must make the records of their rating actions public.

Mutual funds compete for investor interest with many other forms of investment. Some of these competing forms are regulated under the Investment Company Act of 1940, but others are not. Panelists at this AEI conference will discuss three competing forms of investment—exchange-traded funds (ETFs), separately managed accounts, and the customized...

Obama can follow the long tradition of U.S. presidents who turned from frustration at home to success abroad by resolving to conclude the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of global talks next year.

An analysis of why current public sector pension accounting standards understate liabilities and encourage excessive risk-taking

The problem of proxy access to the corporation’s ballot has been one that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has struggled with for a long time.

The Obama administration has been trying to stem the tide of skepticism toward its health care law with a new mailer sent directly to the nation's seniors, but a four-page pamphlet will not convince them that ObamaCare is a good deal.

The SEC should eliminate the "trade-through" rule altogether, not extend it to Nasdaq markets.

With the president's vision of an Ownership Society, it would be ironic if the SECnow extends regulation to NASDAQ--a market that is functioning well withoutSEC intervention.