With the recent publication of its final rule, the federal government's Financial Stability Oversight Council is now in position to designate certain nonbank firms as "systemically important financial institutions" (SIFIs). There is probably no aspect of the Dodd-Frank Act that will have more damaging effects on competition in the U.S. financial system.

Can the current post-Bretton Woods international monetary system prevent a return to the beggar-thy-neighbor policies and competitive devaluations that so harmed international prosperity in the 1930s? What are the system's flaws? Can they be corrected, and if so, how? An expert panel will address these and related issues.

As cross-country contacts became more numerous and more complex, so did efforts to create a coherent framework for coordinating the activities of central banks and supervisory authorities in different countries.  The most consequential efforts have taken place under the aegis of the Basel Committee.

Will we recover, unbridle ourselves of debt, innovate, pay for our national security? Or, is China fated to become number one, leaving us to live in a Chinese world?

This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

Amar Bhide says, "To fix our banks, we must go back to the 70s." He must not remember the 1970s very well.

As required by the Dodd-Frank Act, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) to implement the "Living Will" requirements of Section 165(d).