The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance, and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among...

William Daley, whose appointment was announced Thursday, resembles the man who was installed on Wednesday as speaker of the House, John Boehner.

An intriguing experiment is afoot in some of the nation’s struggling public schools. New “Parent Trigger” laws passed in California and on the agenda in New York, Ohio, Colorado, and Chicago, allow parents of chronically failing schools to unseat the schools’ leadership and staff. But the initiative has pitfalls.

Smart grid technologies and an energy policy that creates a source-neutral framework for energy demand would bolster competition and could ultimately eliminate the need for price guarantees by state regulators.

What did we gain by telling the terrorists we know exactly which five targets in D.C., New York, and New Jersey they were planning to blow up?

Legendary economist Milton Friedman was both right and wrong about corporate social responsibility.

The increased attention and money paid to public schools over the past 30 years have not produced real change or resulted in improved outcomes.

In the current environment of intense global competition, reinforcing the stability of the financial system and ensuring continuing incentives to innovate are important in the long run.