The Obama administration is going all out to attract Chinese companies to invest in the U.S., but at the same time, it has rebuffed the efforts of the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to obtain contracts with major U.S. Internet providers or to take over U.S. telecom companies. At this event, a panel of experts will analyze the issues from both an economic and a security perspective.

The launch of the Euro and continuing EU market integration will increase the number of cross-border transactions, and a clearer frameworkfor the role of national authorities is needed.

Mergers between nonbank financial institutions and bank holding companies have the potential for extending the federal safety net that now stands behind the banking industry to nonbank activities.

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

Corporations built up an extraordinary level of cash reserves during the current expansion. Firms have only recently started to draw down their substantial cash holdings through accelerated shareholder payouts, cash-financed mergers and acquisitions, and increased investment. These developments highlight the strong interest that economists and policymakers have in the interaction...

The rationale for repealing the insurance antitrust exemption is--to borrow a word used by Mr. Obama in his radio address--bogus.

In less than twenty-five years, government “affordable housing” and other housing policies have turned a healthy market into a financial ruin. Until Fannie and Freddie’s market dominance and the government’s role in the housing finance system are substantially reduced or eliminated, the United States will continue to have an inferior and unstable housing market.

Reform would allow people all over Japanto gain from faster productivity growth and higher incomes. And the global economy would benefit as well.