This is the third conference in a series that will explore possible changes in the regulation of mutual funds.

The collapse of MF Global has exposed weaknesses in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's and Federal Reserve Bank of New York's ability to evaluate the risks that the institution's operations.

We're about to enter a very long campaign in which where an apparently squeaky clean Mitt Romney is going to be demonized for his success and dragged through the gutter. Meanwhile, Obama took cash from a true denizen of the gutter.

During the recent campaign season, the Democrats blamed the financial crisis on “Republican deregulation,” in particular the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). The GLBA repealed the provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prevented affiliations between commercial and investment banks,...

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee urges the SEC to allow options and futures exchanges to oversee margin requirements on these products without regulatory interference.

The Fed's role in banking regulation, orfinancial regulation, is not well understood.

As the Senate votes on the financial regulatory reform bill, AEI scholars are available to comment on the impact of the bill.

Congress is reconsidering the regulatory framework for derivative instruments as it moves to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this year.