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.

The optimistic forecasts of subprime recovery have not panned out.

In his new book, Global Financial Warriors: The Untold Story of International Finance in the Post-9/11 World (W. W. Norton, January 2007), John Taylor recounts his experiences on the financial frontlines as under secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2001 to 2005. During his tenure at the Treasury,...

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.

After the briefest of honeymoons, the euro soon began sinking against the U.S. dollar in world currency markets.

The problems of international finance have received wide media coverage in the past year, but the current troubles are part of a pattern that goes back at least two decades.

Can the current post-Bretton Woods international monetary system prevent a return to the beggar-thy-neighbor policies and competitive devaluations that so harmed international prosperity in the 1930s? What are the system's flaws? Can they be corrected, and if so, how? An expert panel will address these and related issues.