The Committee sees no good reason for the SEC to intensify the regulation of short selling. Short sales play an important role in our stock markets, allowing investors to express legitimate concerns about accounting irregularities and other reasons for the overvaluation of individual firms.

On the heel of the recent JP Morgan fiasco, American Enterprise Economist John Makin makes the case for how Dodd-Frank is an insufficient guarantor of financial stability.

Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled "Hedge Funds and Analysts: How Independent is their Relationship?"

The Shadow Financial RegulatoryCommittee believes there is great value to short selling, since it tends to correct overvaluation.

At times of serious economic and financial crises, politicians are wont to shirk responsibility for their policy errors and to seek scapegoats for their policy errors. European politicians are proving to be no exception to this tendency.

This week, America lost the most influential social scientist of the past 100 years. James Q. Wilson died at the age of 80.

The SEC now is seeking public comment on how to improve its process for retrospective reviews of existing rules.

But we need a user’s manual for capitalism — one that somehow makes frighteningly evident the risks inherent in a lack of boundaries and that introduces an element of humility to the abilities we have to control and use information.