Wall Street is on track to pay its employees $144 billion this year, breaking a record for the second year in a row, the Wall Street Journal reports. ...

The "hot" trend on Wall Street, the Wall Street Journal reports, is to be boring. In response to the soon-to-be-implemented international banking reg...

The Dodd-Frank Act, designed to prevent future financial crises, does little to improve investors' ability to analyze results at the five biggest U.S....

Hard as it may be to conceive, the complexity embedded in its over 2,000 pages of text is likely to be exceeded by the complications involved in the regulatory implementation of financial reform.

As a consumer advocate and a military brat, I have long been a huge fan and a lifelong member of USAA. USAA is an insurance company that was set up to...

Senator Chris Dodd is a tactical legislative genius - keep this clearly in your mind during the days ahead. In terms of maneuvering for the outcomes he seeks, managing the votes, and controlling the floor, you have rarely seen his equal.

EVERY once in a while, Congress awakens from its lobbyist-induced torpor, realizes that the masses are cranky and sets out to appease them. Such a mom...

What Paul Krugman and other smart economists who don't prioritize breaking up these big banks don't seem to get is that anytime anyone gets too much power, good policy and sound economic theories and formulas all get trumped.

Senator Chris Dodd has good political antennae. He knows that his financial reform bill will come under severe pressure because it has a weak heart -- the provisions that deal with "too big to fail" are simply "too weak to make any sense."

WASHINGTON — Democrats sent a massive Wall Street regulation bill to the full Senate on a party line vote Monday after a temporary retreat by Re...

Consumers need a strong, independent agency that does not have inherent conflict within its core mission statement.

In this letter to the Senate, a dozen prominent economists express their support of Section 716 of the Financial Reform Bill, which would Prohibit fed...

How does the iconic Wall Street exec -- and former Bear Stearns CEO -- Alan "Ace" Greenberg Feel about Dodd's latest financial bill? In an intervi...

Devotees of former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker may less than thrilled by the bill unveiled by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) Citigroup, for its part, doesn...

When Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) unveiled his initial financial regulatory reform bill in November, it included language the admin...

In a proposal set to be unveiled this afternoon, Sen. Chris Dodd (D - Conn.) anchors his latest financial reform bill around a relatively undiminished...

Several much-anticipated details of Sen. Chris Dodd's (D - Conn.) financial reform bill have been revealed, The New York Times and the Wall Street Jou...