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

Our national security would be better served if the United States captured al-Asiri and kept him alive for questioning, so we can find out what he knows.

Despite China's emergence as an economic power and all the talk about how America has become a service economy, U.S. manufacturing is alive and well.

Despite China's emergence as an economic power and all the talk about how America has become a service economy, U.S. manufacturing is alive and well. But there is a fly in the ointment -- the U.S. has become dangerously dependent on imports of raw materials needed to keep the economy moving.

What I find most fascinating about the debate over corporate personhood is the fact that the people who defend corporate personhood don't anthropomorphize big business nearly as much as those who oppose it.

The recent announcement that India will make available a $35 laptop to students seems impressive at first blush, the new technology will not make a huge educational difference in the long run and may even cause more harm than good.

Since the end of the Cold War, the old multilateral group of democratic states known as COCOM that existed to restrict critical exports to the Iron Curtain has been disbanded. But the issue of export controls did not disappear with COCOM. The exponentially increasing power of computers has made...

Nothing in the history of the Fed suggests that it has or ever will have the capability of being consistently wise.