The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors arrived just in the nick of time. The political right was about to pull off the greatest bait-and-switch in recent memory: convincing an angry, frustrated public that our current economic woes derive from government spending and the federal debt rather than from the burst...

Each year, we hear the latest, discouraging figures on the glacial progress women have made in cracking the male-dominated board rooms of corporate America. According to a recent Catalyst study, women hold only 3 percent of the CEO positions and 15 percent of the board positions among Fortune 500 companies....

By Lisa Woll and Joe Keefe

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) has introduced comprehensive financial reform legislation that will soon go to the Senate floor for debate. The Dodd bill creates a consumer protection watchdog, a financial oversight council to monitor systemic risk and a new office to...

World leaders recently concluded the Copenhagen summit to chart a global strategy on climate change, and the U.S. Congress hopefully will soon take up cap-and-trade legislation to reduce carbon emissions here at home. Contrary to what some climate skeptics would have us believe, business leaders from across the globe and...

The United States Senate will likely take up a housing bill next week. The so-called "cram-down" provision -- allowing bankruptcy courts to restructure mortgages, including reducing the principal -- should be embraced as a relatively simple, tax-free and absolutely essential component.

Since 1971, when my company launched the nation's...

Speculative bubbles, before they inevitably burst, are fundamentally the triumph of short-term thinking over long-term thinking, and of short-term investors over long-term investors.

The Financial Crisis of 2008 may be unique and unprecedented but it shares elements in common with previous market upheavals, such as the crisis of 1997-1998...