Finance

Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all-his for...

Where are the next decade's greatest investment opportunities? Veteran investor Marko Dimitrijevic argues that they can be found in frontier market...

To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. In 1940, the instructions to the form 1040 were about four ...

The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics-many of Wall Street's contemporary t...

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of...

Kenneth A. Posner spent close to two decades as a Wall Street analyst, tracking the so-called "specialty finance" sector, which included controvers...

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives. Yet the response of...

Government spending has increased dramatically in the United States since World War II despite the many rules intended to rein in the insatiable ap...

Everyone knows that the current tax system is unfair. Some of the richest people in America pay no tax, while a huge share of the tax burden falls ...

The U.S. government is the world's largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential ...

Wall Street believes that all public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, as evidenced by ever-increasing quarterly earnings, and that ...

Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, t...

Allan H. Meltzer's critically acclaimed history of the Federal Reserve is the most ambitious, most intensive, and most revealing investigation of t...

Fluctuations of commodity prices, most notably of oil, capture considerable attention and have been tied to important economic effects, such as inf...

The reform in Asian financial sectors - especially in banking and stock markets - has been remarkable since the currency crisis of 1997-98. East As...

Years have passed since the world experienced one of the worst financial crises in history, and while countless experts have analyzed it, many cent...

The great majority of working Americans are unprepared to face the difficult task of planning for retirement. In fact, the personal savings rate ha...

The future of retirement programs is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improveme...

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's anoth...

The recent housing market crash shattered Americans' boundless faith in home ownership. "City of American Dreams" is an innovative history of our n...

Government spending has increased dramatically in the United States since World War II despite the many rules intended to rein in the insatiable ap...