In the name of progress, enabling technologies have been allowed to corrupt the legitimate purpose of equity trading. Unfortunately, our financial system no longer distinguishes between means and ends.

If moving your money to a credit union won't make Bank of America or Wells Fargo small enough to fail, it is a rational consumer decision. Making the switch may not be a revolutionary act, but it will certainly make your life easier.

Are we better or worse off economically, socially and politically with shareholders in that pre-eminent a role? Is there a balance point? Have we, in a world of activist hedge funds and high-frequency trading, overshot that point?

Some business reporters have a message for critics who say they did not try hard enough to expose banks' misdeeds before the financial crisis: Don't b...

The European debt crisis appears to be so complicated that even financial wonks are resorting to toys to explain it. Felix Salmon of Reuters takes...

Technical economists, for all their credentials ,tend to be viewed by the political classes as annoying carpers, overeducated intellectuals without a clue of the real world.

Felix Salmon has been continuing his discussion of companies avoiding public listings to stay private. I posted on this when he first wrote about the ...

We used a five-point grading process to evaluate the administration's reported proposal. Does the punishment fit the crime?

It seems the wise thing to do is to resist enthusiasm for any new innovation. That's not to say that technological bubbles will not emerge. But why encourage a very dangerous process?

THE stock market has been big news in recent days. Last week's report that Deutsche Börse, a giant German exchange, intends to buy the New York Stock...

Later this week, the world's elite will once again gather in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. For those of us not atte...

Talk of introducing legislation allowing states to declare bankruptcy began in earnest in November. A speech by Newt Gingrich was followed up by a big...

Halting foreclosures across the nation would be "catastrophic" for the economy, a financial industry trade group said Monday. Tim Ryan, CEO of the Se...

As AIG and the government hammered out a plan last week to repay taxpayers for the bailout worth up to $182.3 billion, the U.S. Treasury reckoned the ...

UPDATE: Citing a "firestorm" of "lies and misinformation," Henderson vowed on his blog this morning to quit blogging. "I misunderstood the technology,...

Global financial regulators have pushed through a series of long-awaited requirements that stipulate how much capital banks must hold to protect again...

What do you do after losing $9 billion? After leading a trading unit at Morgan Stanley that lost the bank $9 billion in bets on the subprime mortga...