Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

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...

The U.S. structure for collective investment, in which individual corporations hire outside investment advisers, is unusual among developed economies. Most other industrialized nations use structures based on a direct contractual relationship between the fund manager and the investor. In such structures, there is no intervening corporation, but there are...

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This is the second in a series of conferences to explore the regulation of mutual funds. Mutual funds are only one form of collective investment vehicle regulated at the federal level. Other categories include bank common trust funds and collective investment funds, both of which are exempt from the...

Many commentators have complained about the damage Obama's new proposed budget would do to our national prosperity. Less has been said about the effect it will have on something far more important: our national character.

Governor Romney's defenders have argued that critics of his role at Bain Capital are really attacking capitalism itself. Given the academic evidence, we would have to agree.

If education philanthropists want to influence policy, then they must open themselves to more public debate about their  plans and goals.