It is perhaps all too common for companies that franchise out stores to insist to complaining customers that the franchisee bears full re...

Inevitably, with any focus comes the opportunity cost of the benefits that could have come from alternative agendas. Put another way, a su...

Is a state’s strategic interest simply the sum total of political and economic expediency? In the case of Iceland becoming a state in the...

According to the New York Times, money paid to “settle a company’s actual or potential liability for a civil or criminal penalty is not d...

Turning lemons into lemonade: that could aptly characterize the strategy of the banking lobby as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

In his commentary on the loss of trust in business, government and society, Michael Wolff laments to decline of trust through what he call...

Reversing his campaign pledge to reduce Japan’s reliance on nuclear power even as he had just been elected as prime minister of Japan in ...

He was supposed to have been reluctantly pushed into briefly stepping in as prime minister in Italy to push austerity measures through th...

With just days to avert the beginning of automatic, across-the-board cuts in the U.S. federal budget and the end of the Bush tax cuts and p...

On December 9, 2012, Romanian voters approved of the coalition of the then-current Prime Minister Victor Ponta, by a two-thirds majority....

On November 6, 2012, Colorado’s citizens approved with a 55% majority a marijuana-legalization measure that allows residents over the age...

Is a stronger E.U. necessarily in the interest of the U.S.? According to Ed West of the Telegraph, “it’s not clear whether a united Europe ...

Legislators can make the task of getting instructions from the popular sovereign, the people, unduly difficult. In November 2012, the Flo...

In HSBC’s settlement with the U.S. Government, the bank has to pay $1.9 billion—about half a quarter’s profit—but avoids criminal charges...

The Securities and Exchange Commission brought an administrative proceeding against the Chinese affiliates of five major CPA firms, inclu...