Today's post has nothing to do with Raj Rajaratnam, who was ...

Republicans want to strangle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before it even gets off the ground. On Thursday, 44 out of the 47 Republicans in the Senate sent a letter to President Obama saying that they would block the nomination of any...

Is the Great Recession over? How is prosperity created? Government spending or free, unencumbered markets? John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek rap it out in this video, released last week by collaborators ...

In a revolutionary step forward, Raymond James Financial and Commonwealth Financial are putting the “social” back into social media—they will soon begin allowing their advisors to interact with and engage in conversations with others on Facebook...

I just caught up to an article in last weekend's ...

Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting kicks off this weekend, and some are predicting that the usual waves of adoration for Warren Buffet may turn into contempt as the investing icon is embroiled in a scandal involving his former heir apparent David...

To show that they are not soft on white-collar crime, the Feds have begun using the kinds of behavioral profiling techniques that tend to be reserved for violent criminals like serial killers, says Matthew Goldstein over at Reuters: ...

With so much of Dodd-Frank yet to be implemented, it has run into an enormous backlash, says Ed Dolan over at his ...

With an April 8 budget deadline looming, and no deal yet on how to allocate $33 billion to $40 billion in spending cuts, a government shut down is looking like a real possibility. If that does happen, the SEC has a contingency plan, says the ...

The SEC charged three former executives of GunAllen Financial Thursday with willfully violating privacy rules when the firm was winding down its business operations in April 2010. Former president Frederick O. Kraus and former national sales...