Larry Lindsey, with his profound knowledge of Washington ways, has absolutely nailed the principal guiding motto of all regulatory bureaucracies: "Cross us and we will make you pay."

The ham-handed Barack Obama campaign attack ads on Mitt Romney's former firm Bain Capital have drawn a lot of ire from other Democrats.

I hope Timothy Geithner's plan works, and I fear that it will not.

At this Bradley Lecture, Walter Russell Mead will discuss why the core institutions, ideas and expectations that shaped American life for the 60 years after the New Deal don’t work anymore.

Prohibiting their bond trading will seriously weaken banks and the markets that banks supply with liquidity.

I have found that the Uncertainty Principle of quantum physics actually has no analogue in foreign policy. Regardless, it is a good way to describe Obama's foreign policy doctrine.

The world—not just the United States—felt the pain of the 2008 financial crisis, and governments rushed to change the way the financial industry was regulated. While from Washington, DC, the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee has been tracking the progress of financial regulation in America, shadow financial committees around the world have been following regional developments.

There a few notes should be made in the margins of the article by Italian historian Guido Formigoni, published in "TamTam democratic" and entitled "De Gasperi, Dossetti and the false dilemma statism-subsidiarity."  It seems worth noting that the interesting debate animated by Formigoni is found in the notions of "social...