The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee works to identify and analyze developing trends and ongoing events that promise to affect the efficiency and safe operation of sectors of the financial services industry; explore the spectrum of short- and long-term implications of emerging problems and policy changes; help develop private, regulatory and legislative responses to such problems that promote efficiency and safety and further the public interest; and to assess and respond to proposed and actual public policy initiatives with respect to the impact on the public interest.

On the first anniversary of the pro-democracy uprising in Bahrain, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Middle East scholar Michael Rubin warns that Bahrain could be headed for a bloodbath with dangerous repercussions for the United States.

This paper measures the incidence of a carbon tax on gasoline using current income and two measures oflifetime income to rank households.

Ineffective drugs take lives, waste money and make precious cures useless. Drugs have been recycled after their expiry date; they have been contaminated with fatal toxins; they have been made too weak or with no active ingredient at all.

Over the next two to three decades, India’s demographic composition will have a significant impact on the country’s economic and strategic capabilities. NBR spoke with expert demographer Nicholas Eberstadt about what India’s population profile will likely look like and how it compares to another major state in the region, China.

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.

In the first Election Watch event of the 2012 campaign, Michael Barone, Karlyn Bowman, Henry Olsen and Norman J. Ornstein will participate in a lively discussion about President Obama’s popularity, the Republican field, what the primary schedule means for the candidates, candidates’ cash on hand, and the other races we’re watching leading up to the 2012 elections.

Over the past few months, there has been a marked intensification of the Eurozone debt crisis that could have major implications for the United States economy in 2012.