When in office, Wilson carried out a policy blend of trust-busting and regulation and signed the Clayton Act (1914) strengthening anti-trust law. But what does all of this have to do with today?

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in an interview released on Thursday that the next important step for making the U.S. fin...

If you've not yet read the recent piece by Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz of Bloomberg News, "Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed’s Secre...

It's been a while since we've heard that trumpet voluntary from the Treasury Department, signaling the sending of another press release celebrating the fact that "TARP worked!" But this week, the horns sounded.

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The senior Senate Republican voiced strong support for House Republican efforts to reduce the budgets of the primary federal ...

The New Jacobins have claimed the scalps of conservative members of Congress whose major crime was providing jobs and financial resources to their hard-pressed constituents.

As Democrats seek to focus voter attention on the nation's economic problems that existed before President Obama took over, they have begun wielding a...

The financial regulatory reform bill currently wending its way through Congress incorporated a reform of the derivatives market, prompting famed inves...

The Democrats' financial reform bill is weak tea that doesn't fix the problem of too big to fail megabanks or prevent the next cycle of boom, bust and bailout.

Over at the Wonk Room, Pat Garofalo takes a moment this morning to discuss the sweetheart deal that Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) carved out of the fi...

The liberal group Americans United for Change has cut a new ad seeking to highlight the disparity between candidate Scott Brown -- a regular truck dri...

Threatened with the prospect of having to spend the entire night sleeping on a cot inside the white sepulchre known as the United States Capitol, Senate Republicans have apparently assented to allowing a debate on the financial regulatory reform bill. Victory for Main Street! Unless, of course, Senate Democrats decided to back down on a strong(ish) bill so that the seeds of bipartisanship could be sown. In which case: Victory for David Broder!