At this conference, we will assess whether high frequency trading (HFT) has been good or bad for the securities markets and investors.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee believes that the SEC should give serious consideration to creating a competitive market for the data on trades and quotes produced by the various securities exchanges.

Despite a growing backlash from his fellow Democrats, President Obama has doubled down on his attacks on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital. But the strategy could backfire in ways Obama did not anticipate. After all, if Romney’s record in private equity is fair game, then so is Obama’s record in public equity — and that record is not pretty.

The new governance structure at theNew York Stock Exchangeshould result in a more engaged board of directors, nimbler decision-making, and more effective regulation of trading practices.

The publication of Dow 36,000 has caused such a stir that it has at times seemed as if coauthor James K. Glassman and I had written another Bell Curve.

The Fed's role in creating preconditions for a stock market bubble was, at most, peripheral and that the Fed did undertake to cool an overheating economy in 1999.

The terrorist war on America has prompted overdue changes in fiscal, monetary, energy, and regulatory policy.

The terrorist war on America is leading to important policy changes that set the stage for a major economic recovery, perhaps as early as the end of 2001.