High levels of trust demarcate the difference between advanced and wealthy economies like America's and poor and nascent markets like those of the former Soviet bloc.

According to pop science, brain chemistry is the reason all those smart people fell for Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Lawmakers need to take a closer look at how to treat fraud at the Patent and Trademark Office.

Government regulations have protected the banks but failed to protect the American people.

Circumstances in Russia point to the gradual erosion of legitimacy and political institutions--or a sudden collapse of the regime, like the recent Egyptian antiauthoritarian revolt.

The Obama administration's proposal for a resolution authority for nonbank financial firms has a fundamental flaw.

Capitalism is the only system that increases both growth and freedom.