Attorney General Eric Holder should reconsider the logic of holding civilian trials for Guantánamo detainees.

Although SEC interested in obtaining higher disclosure standards from foreign companies, this cannot be achieved by discouraging foreign companies from U.S. listings.

This introductory speech, delivered at an AEI event, discusses how to encourage the development of a broad and deep transatlantic securities market.

The development of a transatlantic securities market, long-sought by policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic, would enable American and European investors to trade securities more easily outside their home markets, enhance the diversity and stability of their portfolios, and lower capital costs in both...

This Letter to the Editor contests the opinion that emerging-market economies should adopt internationally accepted currencies, such as the US dollar or the euro.

The central question in securities-market structure is whether investors are better served by human-mediated markets, such as the specialist system of the New York Stock Exchange, or by electronic markets, such as NASDAQ and the Electronic Communication Networks. The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent Regulation NMS, although it purports to...

Following the example of the U.S. Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee a group of European professors and other independent experts in the fields of banking, finance and the regulation of financial institutions and markets set up the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee in spring 1998.

The federal government should pursue assistance programs that actually make sense.