With its Association Agreement with the E.U. effectively suspended due to concerns about the “stark deterioration of democracy and the ru...

Out of a “desire to ensure that the financial sector fairly and substantially contributes to the costs of the crisis and that [the sector...

Foreign policy is typically one of the domains of power that goes to the federal level in a Union of states. The history of the E.U. in i...

Even as custom or tradition that has outlived its justification—which is not the same as usefulness —is essentially deadwood, there is pr...

After years of billion-dollar losses, the U.S. Postal Service announced in February 2013 that the “long-held tradition of Saturday delive...

The budget deal reached by the state governments represented in the European Council in Feburary 2013 would mark the first decrease in th...

Despite pressures from the appreciation of the euro, which had hit a 15-month peak of $1.3711 on February 1, 2013, Mario Draghi of the Eu...

In sending a message to S & P as well as Wall Street more generally regarding the excesses in the securitization of subprime mortgage...

Speaking at the European Parliament in early February 2013, Francois Hollande of France castigated the floating exchange rate of the euro...

In the wake of David Cameron’s announcement that he would try to renegotiate Britain’s obligations in the E.U. then have an “in or out” r...

After the financial crisis of 2008, regulators in the U.S. ordered banks to hire consultants to implement more than 130 “enforcement acti...

As the largest of the social-media companies, Facebook has gone into uncharted waters. Adding to Wall Street’s analytical headache, the c...

The E.U.’s internal market is not typically construed in terms of federalism. Whereas the market connotes homogeneity or at least easy tr...

Fundamentally, a union of states is in trouble when any federal action is predicated on consent from the governor of the largest state. T...

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