At this conference, we will assess whether high frequency trading (HFT) has been good or bad for the securities markets and investors.

Reviewing "The Myth of The Paperless Office" for the New Yorker in 2002, Malcolm Gladwell argued that if the computer had come first, and paper didn't exist, someone would have had to invent it.  Paper, it turns out, is a lot more useful than we typically appreciate.

Patients who take a close look at medical science in search of treatments are often appalled by what they discover. On the one hand, there's academic research, a self-contained and self-absorbed universe of its own where data may be internally consistent (on a good day) and robustly reproducible, yet often has little relevance to real-world clinical conditions.

Steve Jobs's announcement that he is stepping down as CEO of Apple is not surprising. Jobs failed better than anyone else in Silicon Valley, maybe better than anyone in corporate America. And yet, behind his failures, there's a moral here for a Washington culture that fears failure too much.

The general economic "health" of the U.S. manufacturing sector has re-emerged in a Presidential election year. In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama announced to Americans "that we have a huge opportunity, at this moment to bring manufacturing back," promising manufacturers special tax reductions and other federal...

The evidence strongly suggests that Wall Street does not see federal antitrust action against Microsoft as a solution to whatever monopoly power it may possess.

On Feb. 15, Leslie Moonves, the brilliant CEO of CBS, gave a piece of good news to investors — there would be an addition to the bottom line in 2012 of about $190 million, thanks to huge spending on political commercials coming into the network and its owned and operated...

Obama's irresolution and inaction could well make a nuclear Iran his most lasting legacy.