I agree with George Will about as often as the Boston Red Sox agree with the New York Yankees, but as the law of broken clocks suggests, we must both be right at least twice a day.

Private equity firms are not net job creators and they sure don't need the crazily huge distortionary tax break that they get.

A crown on a four-year-old's tooth? That's just one of the consequences of private equity's leap into the dentist's chair. That's because dental m...

Try as it might, the private equity industry hasn't won the hearts and minds of average Americans. More than half of Americans say they have a neg...

Over the last two decades the system has become lopsided so as to leave the 99 percent feeling helpless and hopeless. Meanwhile special interest groups continue to rig the system disproportionately in favor of the 1 percent.

U.S. banks want regulators to give them more time to liquidate investments in certain private equity funds under the Volcker rule, arguing that wi...

Call me old fashioned but I just think it's wrong that a single hedge fund manager earns a billion dollars, when a billion dollars would pay the salaries of about 20,000 teachers.

Paul Volcker's long NYT op-ed last weekend, and his testimony to the Senate banking committee this week, did very little to clear up a lot of the unce...

A day after Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's office indicated that he may scrap the centerpiece of President Obama's financial regulator...

Only a year after the government stepped in to aid Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley by granting them access to the federal safety net, policy makers a...

Instead of trying to come up with a constructive solutio, the banks failed to accept that their exceptional earnings did not come to them.