With all of the recent attention focused on corporate and accounting fraud, few investors are aware that the SEC now has before it a decision that could radically change the structure of today's securities markets.

Since his election as president of Venezuela in 1998, leftist strongman Hugo Chávez has shattered his country’s already weak institutions to expand and sustain his grip on power and has built an anti-U.S. alliance with Cuba, Iran, Russia and China.

The U.S. is more active on trade policy than it has been in years.  President Obama is meeting with Canada and Mexico about new agreements, Congress will hold hearings on changing decades-old trade law, and the federal government will more broadly be bringing several cases before the WTO.

Yet, in constructing...

When economies are already laboring under too much spending, and are at diminishing-return levels of taxation, implementing a carbon tax would be a mistake.

Luncheon address delivered at The Transatlantic Law Forum's Fifth Annual Conference. Delivered at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

Awritten comment submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission with regard to oversight of credit rating agencies, File No. S7-04-07.

Is SEC regulation always effective?

We need to pull the plug on the administration's 'Online Skills Laboratory.'