As president, Thomas Jefferson campaigned against the U.S. Supreme Court in the pivotal 1800 election after the court let the Alien and Se...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told a radio audience on April 3, 2012 “that China’s state-controlled banks are a ‘monopoly’ that must be broken...

L. Dennis Kozlowski, a former CEO of Tyco, was denied parole “due to concern for the public safety and welfare,” according to the New York...

For all the American lawyers and law “professors” who had been predicting on the basis of their "expertise" that the three days ...

The party of dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy, won a decisive victory in by-elections on April 1, 2012....

One of the benefits of being in a federation— as distinct from an international organization —is that states in fiscal trouble can benefit ...

Companies differ on how they handle personal and institutional conflicts of interest. This difference may reflect disagreement over whether...

During one of his lectures to a class at George Washington University in March of 2012, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, ...

Two months into 2012, the SEC announced that it had been examining the trading activities of high-frequency trading firms.    According to t...

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had a heart transplant on March 24, 2012, "after five heart attacks over the past 25 years and ...

If you are wondering how the Congress got away with taking over so much from the state legislatures, you need look no further than  Wickard ...

Looking at foreclosures from 2008 to 2010 of federally-backed mortgages serviced by five major banks, federal investigators at the Departme...

I n early March, 2012, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that Spain’s budget-deficit target would not be the 4.4% that had bee...

Sometimes I think the human mind is like a train in being limited to the tracks that have already been laid. We are habituated to think it s...

In 2012, 80% of Greece’s private creditors agreed to “voluntarily” convert their Greek debt into debt of a bit less than half the face-value...